A Sociologist Has Found That the Number of Serious Crimes

question 271

Short Answer

A sociologist has found that the number of serious crimes in a certain city each year is described by the function where x (in cents/dollar deposited) is the level of reinvestment in the area in conventional mortgages by the city's ten largest banks.Use differentials to estimate the change in the number of crimes if the level of reinvestment changes from 27 /dollar deposited to 34 /dollar deposited.Round to the nearest integer.
Decrease of __________ crimes/yr.

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