Sociologists have found that crime rates are infulenced by temperature. In a tow

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Sociologists have found that crime rates are infulenced by temperature. In a town of 100,000 people, the arime rate has been approximateod as CT-60 110, where C is the number of crimes per month and T is the average monthly temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature for May was 77 and by the end of May the temperature was rising at the rate of 9° per month. How fast is the crime rate rising at the end of May? At the end of May, the crime rate is rising bycrime(s) per month. (Simplify your answer.)

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Solution:

Given that

C = 1/5 (T - 60)2 + 110

C = 1/5 (T - 60)2 + 110

C = (1/5 (T- 60)2) + 110

dT/dt = 9 degrees/ month

Rate of crime = dC/dt = (1/5)(2)(T 60)(dT/dt) ................t is time in months

dC/dt = 9*9*2/5 =32.4 Crimes per month.

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