Percent infected 100- 80- 60- 40- 20- Days after planting 60 10 20 50 30 40 FIGURE 16

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The fungus Fusarium exosporium infects a field of flax plants through the roots and causes the plants to wilt. Eventually,
the entire field is infected. The percentage f (t) of infected plants as a function of time t (in days) since planting is shown
in Figure 16.
(a) What are the units of the rate of change of f (t) with respect to t? What does this rate measure?
(b) Use the graph to rank (from smallest to largest) the average infection rates over the intervals [0, 12], [20, 32], and
[40, 52]. (d) Draw the tangent line at t = 40 and estimate its slope. 

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