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SOLAR PANEL PRODUCTION The manager of Sodex Corporation estimates that t months after it first began production, it was manufacturing the company’s 140-watt 12-volt nominal solar panels at the rate of
hundred panels per month. What is the manager’s estimate of the number of solar panels manufactured by the company during the second year?
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