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Oil PricesAccording to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the price O in real dollars for an imported barrel of crude oil can be approximated by
where x=1 corresponds to the first quarter of 2015, and so forth. Find the price of imported crude oil for the following quarters.
Third quarter of 2015
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