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Salt harvested at the Grassmere Saltworks forms a cone as it falls from a conveyor belt.
The slant of the cone forms an angle of with the horizontal.
The conveyor belt delivers the salt at a rate of of salt per minute.
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Find the rate at which the slant height is increasing when the radius of the cone is .
*You must use calculus and show any derivatives that you need to find when solving this
problem.*
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