Question: 2. Oil is leaking from an uncapped well and polluting a lake. Ten days after the leak is discovered, environmental engineers measure the amount of

 2. Oil is leaking from an uncapped well and polluting a

2. Oil is leaking from an uncapped well and polluting a lake. Ten days after the leak is discovered, environmental engineers measure the amount of oil in the water to be 200 gallons with a current inflow rate of 30 gallons per day. The leak is slowing so that on the tenth day, the inflow rate is decreasing by 5 gallons/day each day. Suppose Q(t) is the amount of oil (in gallons) t days after the leak is discovered. (a) Find the second degree Taylor polynomial for Q(t) centered at t=10. (b) Use your answer in the previous part to estimate the amount of oil in the lake at t=12

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