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Population Growth The projected population of the United States for the years 2025 through 2055 can be modeled by
(a) Use a graphing utility to graph the function for the years 2025 through 2055.
(b) Use the table feature of the graphing utility to create a table of values for the same time period as in part (a).
(c) According to the model, during what year will the population of the United States exceed 430 million?
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