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Pollution. An environmental protection agency estimates that the rate of seepage of toxic chemicals from a waste dump (in gallons per year) is given by
where t is the time in years since the discovery of the seepage. Find the total amount of toxic chemicals that seep from the dump during the first 4 years of its discovery.
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