Water pollution Oil is leaking out of a tanker damaged at

Chapter 5, Problem 19E

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Water pollution Oil is leaking out of a tanker damaged at sea. The damage to the tanker is worsening as evidenced by the increased leakage each hour, recorded in the following table.Time (h)01234Leakage (gal/h)507097136190Time (h)5678Leakage (gal/h)265369516720a. Give an upper and a lower estimate of the total quantity of oil that has escaped after 5 hours.b. Repeat part (a) for the quantity of oil that has escaped after 8 hours.c. The tanker continues to leak 720 gal h after the first 8 hours.If the tanker originally contained 25,000 gal of oil, approximately how many more hours will elapse in the worst case before all the oil has spilled? In the best case?

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