Lighthouse Beam Along Shoreline

A lighthouse is located on a small island 3 km away from the nearest point on a straight shorline and its light makes four revolutions per minute. How fast is the beam of light moving along the shoreline when it is 1 km from P?

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Jamie Mulholland
Department of Mathematics
Simon Fraser University
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