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Unit 4: Contextual Applications of Differentiation

Solving Related Rates Problems

Carry a related rates problem from a word description to a rate with the right sign and units, and state what that rate means at that instant.

Topic 4.5 · 9 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Calculus BC plan

In this lesson

  1. 01The order of the steps
  2. 02Getting down to the rates you know
  3. 03What the answer means
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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