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The Final Time

One quantity we need to know is the final time, tf. We will calculate that now.

In the problem statement, we said that 10 gallons were spilled at (for our purposes) time t = 0. We also know that four days passed before the authorities were called and able to cut off flow through the dam. If we are trying to determine how much gasoline escaped the reservoir, what should our final time tf be in days?

Sorry, your browser does not support Java. The correct answer is four days.
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John Hoggard <hoggard@math.vt.edu>
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