A spherical snowball with an outer layer of ice melts so that the volume of the snowball decreases at a rate of 2 cm^3/min . How fast is the radius changing when the radius of the snowball is 1 cm? The volume of a sphere of a radius r is (Explain in details your strategy to solve the problem and solve it.)
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