Who can answer this Calculus problem?

Question

A woman 5.5 ft tall walks at a rate of 6 ft/sec towards a streetlight that is 22 ft above the ground. At what rate is the length of her shadow changing when she is 15 ft from the base of the light?f

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Answer 1

The length of her shadow is changing by 2 ft/second. I'm not going to bother explaining because that just took me like, 20 minutes to figure out. Oh. It's getting smaller too, but since it's headed in the direction of dx/dt, it's positive.

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