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Waiting Time The average number of vehicles waiting in line to enter a parking lot can be modeled by the function
where x is a quantity between 0 and 1 known as the traffic intensity.+ Find the rate of change of the number of vehicles waiting with respect to the traffic intensity for the following values of the intensity: +F. Mannering and W. Kilareski, Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Control, Second Edition (John Wiley and Sons, 1997).
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