Advice on the Word Problems

1. It might help to glance at the text of Section 3.7 to get a bit of an idea of which rates correspond to each other.

2. Make sure you read the text of 3.8

3. Pay attention to the warning on page 185 - substituting given information for variables should only be done after all the differentiation is done.

4. Remember how Prof. Newberry mentioned that differentiating equations with x and y with respect to t would be important? That will be a big thing in this section.