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Problem 11a
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Section 3.8: Rates of Change in the Natural and Social Sciences
Chapter 3: Differentiation Rules
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Given information
Note that given, A company makes computer chips from square wafers of silicon. It wants to keep the side length of a wafer very close to and it wants to know how the area of the wafer changes when the side length changes.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Note that the area of a square is a function of its side length is, .
Here, is measured in .
Therefore, the rate of change in area is the derivative of .