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Demographics—Poverty: A study conducted by the Northern Aid Organization shows that the nu...

Demographics—Poverty: A study conducted by the Northern Aid Organization shows that the number of people identified as having incomes below poverty level in the northern provinces of a certain country can be modeled by

where x represents the population in thousands and f(x) represents the number of people identified as having incomes below poverty level, measured in thousands.

(a) Determine the differential dy for the model.


(b) Suppose the population of the Prudential Province has increased from 20 thousand to 22 thousand. Use the differential to approximate the increase in number of people below poverty level.

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