A street light is mounted at the top of a 12 ft tall pole. A woman 6 ft tall walks away from the pole with a speed of 8 ft/sec along a straight path. How fast is the tip of her shadow moving when she is 35 ft from the base of the pole

16 ft/s.

Step-by-step explanation:

As the two triangles in the figure are similar to each other we have

Differentiating with respect to time we have

Rate at which the tip of the shadow moves away from the pole is 16 ft/s.

u = -(6/7)w

step-by-step explanation:

place all values with 'u' on one side of the equation.

4u + 8w = - 3u + 2w

4u + 3u = 2w - 8w

further simplify the equation by solving the addition and subtraction.

7u = - 6w

make 'u' the independent variable by placing its co-efficient on the right-hand side.

u = - (6/7)w