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Grades62 A productivity formula for a student’s performance on difficult English examination is
where g is the score the student can expect to obtain, t is the number of hours of study for the examination, and x is the student’s grade-point average.
a. For how long should a student with a 3.0 grade-point average study to score 80 on the examination?
b. Find
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