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A ladder 5 m in length is resting against vertical wall. The bottom of the ladder is pulled along the ground away from the wall at the rate of 
. The length of the highest point of the ladder when the foot of the ladder 
away from the wall decreases at the rate of
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According to fig. 
.....(i)
Differentiate (i) w.r.t. t , we get
…..(ii)
Here 
and 
From (i), 
From (ii), 
So, 
Hence, length of the highest point decreases at the rate of 2 m / sec .
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