Length of the trough ft.
Height of the isosceles of the triangle is ft.
Side of the triangle is ft.
Trough is being filled with water at a rate of ft3/min.
Thus, .
Diagram of the situation at any time :
Consider at any time , the width of the water level is
.
And height of the water is .
From the property of the similar triangles.
\Volume of the above trough is .
Here, and
.
Differentiate on each side with respect to .
Find the rate at which water level is rising when it is inches deep.
Thus, .
Substitute and
in
.
Rate at which water level rising is ft/min.
Rate at which water level rising is ft/min.