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One airplane is approaching an airport from the north at 124 km/hr. A second airplane approaches

from the east at 223 km/hr. Find the rate at which the distance between the planes changes when
the southbound plane is 34 km away from the airport and the westbound plane is 15 km from the
airport.

User Adam Szmyd
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The rate at which the distance between the planes
355 km/hr
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