The number of Twitter employees are shown in the table for various years.  Let f(t) be the number of Twitter employees at t years since 2005. Year Number of Employees 2008 8 2009 29 2010 130 2011 350 2012 900 2013 2000 2014 3300 2015 4100   (b) Use the exponential model to predict the number of Twitter employees in 2020.  Round to 3 decimal places.

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The number of Twitter employees are shown in the table for various years.  Let f(t) be the number of Twitter employees at t years since 2005.

Year Number of Employees
2008 8
2009 29
2010 130
2011 350
2012 900
2013 2000
2014 3300
2015 4100

 

(b) Use the exponential model to predict the number of Twitter employees in 2020.  Round to 3 decimal places.

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