This week in AP-Calc., we learned related rates. Surprisingly, I understood related rates quite a bit. They were not as hard as I expected them to be. I think the reason for my success were the six steps to solving the related rates problems. The steps made it really easy to organize my information and see the how to solve the question. Without those steps, I would have had a hard time trying to figure out the steps that they wanted me to take to get to the answer. I believe that the hardest step was the first one. Making sure you get your drawing right is so crucial to getting the problem right. If your drawing is wrong, your equation will be wrong, making your derivative wrong, but you will get the wrong answer. It is really nice when the book gives you a drawing to go off of because it makes things so easy. You can basically skip step one and half of step 4 because it gives you a lot of information straight up. At first, I did not think that related rates would be useful in the real world, but after seeing some of the problems that we had to do, they seem really useful for a lot of different scenarios. The hiking in the woods problem would be really useful for when I go on backpacking trips because I could find out the fastest route to go.
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