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The top of a ladder 6 metre long is resting against a vertical wall on a level pavement, when the ladder begins to slide outwards. At the moment when the foot of the ladder is 4 metres from the wall, it is sliding away from the wall at the rate of 0.5 m/sec. How fast is the top - sliding downwards at this instance?

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Given: the top of a ladder 6 metre long is resting against a vertical wall on a level pavement, when the ladder begins to slide outwards, at the moment when the foot of the ladder is 4 metres from the wall, it is sliding away from the wall at the rate of 0.5 m/sec

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Hence the angle θ between the ladder and the ground is changing at the rate of - 0.11 rad/sec when the foot of the ladder is 4 m away from the wall.

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