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According to Knight-Ridder Newspapers, homeowners who hire a tree service to grind and rem...

According to Knight-Ridder Newspapers, homeowners who hire a tree service to grind and remove tree stumps from their yards can expect to pay about $95 for the first 10 inches of tree stump diameter and $1 for each additional inch thereafter.

a. Find a piecewise-linear function C(d) that gives the charge for stump grinding and removal as a function of the diameter of the stump in inches.


b. Find C(16) and explains what it means in terms of the situation.


c. If a homeowner paid $108 for stump grinding and removal, what was the diameter of the tree stump?

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