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A person who is 6 feet tall is walking away from a lamp post at the rate of 40 feet per minute. When the person is 10 feet from the lamp post, his shadow is 20 feet long. Find the rate at which the length of the shadow is increasing when he is 30 feet from the lamp post.

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Answer: 80 feet per minute
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