A boat is being lowered into a river from a dock using a chain attached to a pulley on the tip of a 20 ft boom. If the tip of the boom is 16 ft above the water and the chain is being let down at a rate of .5 ft/sec, what is the rate of change of the distance between the boom and the center of the boat?

F(x)= 1/x-4, g(x)=4x+1/x a. use composition to prove whether or not the functions are inverses of each other. b. express the domain of the compositions using interval notation.

Suppose that the price p (in dollars) and the weekly sales x (in thousands of units) of a certain commodity satisfy the demand equation 4p cubedplusx squaredequals38 comma 400. determine the rate at which sales are changing at a time when xequals80, pequals20, and the price is falling at the rate of $.20 per week.

The swimming pool is open when the high temperature is higher than 20∘c. lainey tried to swim on monday and thursday (which was 3 days later). the pool was open on monday, but it was closed on thursday. the high temperature was 30∘c on monday, but decreased at a constant rate in the next 3 days. write an inequality to determine the rate of temperature decrease in degrees celsius per day, d, from monday to thursday.