In an effort to make room for new inventory, a college bookstore runs a sale on its least popular math books.  The sales rate (books sold per day) on day t of the sale is predicted to be 60/t (for t greater than or equal to 1) where t=1 corresponds to the beginning of the sale, at which time none of the inventory of 370 books had been sold. Find the formula for the number of books sold up to day t. S(t)=?

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In an effort to make room for new inventory, a college bookstore runs a sale on its least popular math books.  The sales rate (books sold per day) on day t of the sale is predicted to be 60/t (for t greater than or equal to 1) where t=1 corresponds to the beginning of the sale, at which time none of the inventory of 370 books had been sold.

Find the formula for the number of books sold up to day t.

S(t)=?

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