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Depth of Snowfall Snow began falling at noon on Sunday. The amount of snow on the ground at a certain location at time t was given by the function
where f is measured in days from the start of the snowfall and h(t) is the depth of snow in inches. Draw a graph of this function, and use your graph to answer the following questions.
- (a) What happened shortly after noon on Tuesday?
- (b) Was there ever more than 5 in. of snow on the ground? If so, on what day(s)?
- (c) On what day and at what time (to the nearest hour) did the snow disappear completely?
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