SOLUTION: A baseball diamond has the shape of a square with sides 90 ft long. A player 60 ft from second base is running towards the third base at a speed of 28 ft/min. At what rate is the p

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Question 1193963: A baseball diamond has the shape of a square with sides 90 ft long. A player 60 ft from second base is running towards the third base at a speed of 28 ft/min. At what rate is the player’s distance from the home plate changing?
Answer by ikleyn(52787) About Me  (Show Source):
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28 ft/min is not a speed of a running baseball player.

It is a rate of a crawling turtle.