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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 .

 

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