A team of engineers is designing a new water reservoir. They model the depth of the water, $h(t)$ (in meters), in the reservoir as a function of time $t$ (in days) since the start of the rainy season. The rate of change of the water depth is given by $h’(t) = 0.2t - 0.01t^2$, for \$0 \le t \le 30$. At the start of the rainy season, the reservoir is empty, i.e., $h(0) = 0$.
c. Explain why the answers to parts (a) and (b) are different. Discuss the implications of this difference in the context of the reservoir’s water depth.
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informal consideration of the definite integral as a limiting value of a sum involving quantities such as area under a curve and approximation of definite integrals using the trapezium rule
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