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The radius of a right circular cone is increasing at a rate of 1.6in/s while its height is decreasing at a rate of 2.5 in/s. At what rate is the volume of the cone changing when the radius is 120in and the height is 140in?

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The solution provides an example of determining rate of change using chain rule.

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