Chapter 6.3, Problem 1E

Reminder Round all answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated.

Minimum Wage On July 24, 2008, the federal minimum wage was $\$6.55\text{per hour}$. On July 24, 2009, this wage was raised to $\$7.25\text{per hour}$. If $W\left(t\right)$ denotes the minimum wage, in dollars per hour, as function of time, in years, use the given information to estimate $\frac{dW}{dt}$ in $2009$.