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Investments In Hedge Funds Investments in hedge funds have increased along with their popularity. The assets of hedge funds (in trillions of dollars) from 2002 through 2007 are modeled by the function
where t is measured in years, with t = 0 corresponding to the beginning of 2002
- a. What were the assets in hedge funds at the beginning of 2002? At the beginning of 2003?
- b. What were the assets in hedge funds at the beginning of 2005? At the beginning of 2007?
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