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Temperature data Hourly temperature data for Boulder, Colorado. San Francisco, California. Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Duluth, Minnesota, over a 12 hr period on the same day of January are shown in the figure. Assume that these data are taken from a continuous temperature function T(t). The average temperature over the 12-hr period is
27. Find an accurate approximation to the average temperature over the 12-hr period for Boulder. State your method.
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