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Maintenance costs. Maintenance costs for an apartment house generally increase as the building gets older. From past records, the rate of increase in maintenance costs (in dollars per year) for a particular apartment complex is given approximately by
where x is the age of the apartment complex in years and M(x) is the total (accumulated) cost of maintenance for x years. Write a definite

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