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(Solved): An oil well is expected to produce oil at the rate of 54e0.05t thousand barrels per month indefi ...
An oil well is expected to produce oil at the rate of 54e−0.05t thousand barrels per month indefinitely, where t is the number of months that the well has been in operation. Find the total output (in barrels) over the lifetime of the well by integrating this rate from 0 to c. [Note: The owner will shut down the well when production falls too low, but it is convenient to estimate the total output as if production continued forever.]