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2. During the process of implicit differentiation you are trying to find Dy/Dx. To do this you take the derivative of the function and using the necessary method and for each variable you take the derivative of you multiply by either Dx/Dx or Dy/Dx, depending of the variable. Then you get all the Dy/Dx on the same side then solve for Dy/Dx.
3. The most important thing to remember in a related rate problem is to always multiply by the proper term when you take the derivative of a variable.