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A ladder, 5 maters long, standing on a horizontal floor, leans against a vertical wall. If the top of the ladder slides downwards at the rate of 10 cm/sec, then find the rate at which the angle between the floor and the ladder is decreasing when lower end of the ladder is 2 meters away from the wall.

A

`10 m//s`

B

`3/2 m//s`

C

`8/3 m//s`

D

None of these

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The correct Answer is:
C
At any instant `x^(2)+y^(2)=5^(2)`
Differentiating w.r.t. time `2x x/(dt)+2y (dy)/(dt)=0`
Here `(dx)/(dt)=2, (dy)/(dt)=u rArr u=8/3 m//s`
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