Suppose you are filling your car with gasoline at the local gas station. Unfortunately, the pump display is broken, so you cannot see how much gas you put in your car. While you pump gas, the gasoline flows into the car’s gas tank at a rate of f(t) = 10t cos(t/2) gallons/minute. If it takes you 2 minutes to fill the tank, which has a capacity of 16 gallons, how many gallons were in the tank when you started to pump gas?

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Suppose you are filling your car with gasoline at the local gas station. Unfortunately, the pump display is broken, so you cannot see how much gas you put in your car.
While you pump gas, the gasoline flows into the car’s gas tank at a rate of f(t) = 10t cos(t/2)
gallons/minute. If it takes you 2 minutes to fill the tank, which has a capacity of 16 gallons,
how many gallons were in the tank when you started to pump gas?

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