A person stands 15 meters east of an intersection and watches a car driving towards the intersection from the north at 1 meter per second. At a certain instant, the car is 8 meters from the intersection.
What is the rate of change of the distance between the car and the person at that instant (in meters per second)?
Answer Choices are -2.125, -square root65, -8/17, and -17

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?