An Angler Has a Fish at the End of His

question 168

Essay

An angler has a fish at the end of his line, which is being reeled in at the rate of 3 feet per second from a bridge 50 feet above the water. At what speed is the fish moving through the water towards the bridge when the amount of line out is 130 feet? (Assume the fish is at the surface of the water and that there is no sag in the line.)

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Definitions:

Slopes Upward

A term used to describe a line or curve on a graph that increases in value as it moves from left to right.

Long-Run Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing how the quantity supplied by an industry or a firm changes over time when all input levels, including physical capital, are variable.

Total Market Output

The total quantity of goods or services produced and offered for sale within a market by all firms.

Downward Sloping

A graphical representation indicating that one variable decreases as another increases, commonly used to describe demand curves in economics.