MATH100 A December 2023
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We need to come up with an expression that represents the distance between Ship A and Ship B.
Let be the distance between Ship A and Ship B, and say that “up” is the positive direction, and at noon when the ships are 4km apart, the -coordinate of their position is 0. Looking at the upper figure, we could re-arrange the paths of ships A and B to create a right-angle triangle (lower figure).
distance between ships rearranged
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We need to come up with an expression that represents the distance between Ship A and Ship B.
Let be the distance between Ship A and Ship B, and say that “up” is the positive direction, and at noon when the ships are 4km apart, the -coordinate of their position is 0. Looking at the upper figure, we could re-arrange the paths of ships A and B to create a right-angle triangle (lower figure).
distance between ships rearranged
Using this, we can write an expression for that depends on the -coordinate of the positions of ships A and B:

To determine how fast the distance between the ships is changing, we take the derivative of with respect to time.

So, now we need to determine , , , and 30mins after noon. Say at noon, time and measure time in hours. Then, 30mins later .
We know ship A and ship B are travelling at a constant speed, so km/h and km/h. The -coordinate of their positions can be determined using , so:

Now we can calculate how fast the distance between the ships is changing:

Therefore, the distance between the ships is changing at km/h.
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