Suppose you own a fuel-efficient hybrid automobile with a monitor on the dashboard that displays the mileage
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Suppose you own a fuel-efficient hybrid automobile with a monitor on the dashboard that displays the mileage and gas consumption. The number of miles you can drive with g gallons of gas remaining in the tank on a particular stretch of highway is given by m(g) = 50g - 25.8g2 + 12.5g3 - 1.6g4, for 0 ≤ g ≤ 4.
a. Graph and interpret the mileage function.
b. Graph and interpret the gas mileage m(g)/g.
c. Graph and interpret dm/dg.
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