A few weeks into the deadly SARS epidemic in 2003, the number of cases was increasing by about 4% each day. On April 1, 2003 there were 1804 cases. Find and exponential model that predicts the number of cases in t days after April 1, 2003, and use  it to estimate the number of cases on April 30, 2003?

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A few weeks into the deadly SARS epidemic in 2003, the number of cases was increasing by about 4% each day. On April 1, 2003 there were 1804 cases. Find and exponential model that predicts the number of cases in t days after April 1, 2003, and use  it to estimate the number of cases on April 30, 2003? 

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