Pollution The daily cost C (in dollars) of removing pollution from the smokestack of a coal-fired electric power plant is related to the percent of pollution p being removed according to the equation
a. Describe the transformations needed to obtain this function from the function
b. Graph the function for 0 ≤ p < 100.
c. What is the daily cost of removing 80% of the pollution?
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