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Air Pollution The amount of nitrogen dioxide, a brown gas that impairs breathing, present in the atmosphere on a certain May day in the city of Long Beach is approximated by
where A (t) is measured in pollutant standard index (PSI) and t is measured in hours, with t = 0 corresponding to 7 a.m. Use differentials to find the approximate change in the PSI from 8 a.m. to 8:05 a.m.
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