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3 Dec 2021
Given information
Let be the rate which the world's oil is consumed, where is
measured in years starting at on January , and is measured in barrels per year.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The integral of a rate of change is the net change. So, if is the number of barrels consumed per year, and is the number of years after January , then
represents the number of barrels consumed from January , right up until which is the beginning of In other words starting from January through January 1, 2008.