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Crime Rate Sociologists have found that crime rates are influenced by temperature. In a midwestern town of 100.000 people, the crime rate has been approximated as,
where C is the number of crimes per month and T is the average monthly temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature for May was 76°, and by the end of May the temperature was rising at the rate of 8° per month. How fast is the crime rate rising at the end of May?
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