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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.
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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.