For children and adults with diseases such as asthma, the number of respiratory deaths per year increases

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For children and adults with diseases such as asthma, the number of respiratory deaths per year increases by 0.33% when pollution particles increase by a microgram per cubic meter of air.

(a) Write a formula for the number of respiratory deaths per year as a function of quantity of pollution in the air. (Let Q0 be the number of deaths per year with no pollution.) 

(b) What quantity of air pollution results in twice as many respiratory deaths per year as there would be without pollution?

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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