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Brain weight as a function of body weight
in fish is
, where
and
are measure in grams.
Body weight as a function of body length is
.
Average length of a certain species of fish evolved from cm to
cm at a constant rate over
million years.
Find the rate of change of length.
\Consider .
Differentiate on each side with respect to .
Substitute in above expression.
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Consider .
Differentiate on each side with respect to .
Substitute and
in above expression.
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Find the rate at which species brain growing when average length is cm.
Substitute in
.
Rate at which species brain growing when average length was cm is
grams/million year.
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Rate at which species brain growing when average length was cm is
grams/million year.