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Ecologists estimate that, when the population of a certain city is x thousand persons, the average level Lof carbon monoxide in the air above the city will be L ppm (parts per million), where L(x)=800.4x0.0002x2.
The population of the city is estimated to be x(t)=75015t0.5t2 thousand persons tyears from the present.
a) What is the rate of change of garbon monoxide with respect to the population of the city?
dLdx=
b) What is the rate of change of thetpopulation with respect to time?
dxdt=
c) What is the rate of change of carbon monoxide with respect to time?
dLdt=
d)4 years from now, the population of the city will be thousand persons.
e)4 years from now, the population will be increasing at the rate of thousand persofts per year.
f)4 years from now, the level of carbon monoxide will be rising at the rate of
domvear. (round to 1 decimal place)
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