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The temperature θC inside a refrigerator at time thours is modeled by the function

θ=12cost(costsint)+t2,0<t<3.5

Find the maximum and minimum temperature in the refrigerator as t varies.


Don't expand the bracket - treat costsint as a function, and 12cost as a function, and apply the product rule.

Differentiate the t2 separately.


The maximum temperature is T, the minimum temperature is τ.

The value of T+τ can be written in simplest form as

aπ+bc,a,b,cN

Find a+b+c.