009B Sample Final 2, Problem 4

A city bordered on one side by a lake can be approximated by a semicircle of radius 7 miles, whose city center is on the shoreline. As we move away from the center along a radius the population density of the city can be approximated by:

$\rho (x)=25000e^{-0.15x}$

people per square mile. What is the population of the city?

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