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Twitter Between 2007 and 2010, “tweeting” became increasingly popular. The number of tweet...

Twitter Between 2007 and 2010, “tweeting” became increasingly popular. The number of tweets (in thousands) reported by the microblogging company Twitter can be modeled by T(x) = 16,665x − 116,650, where x is the number of years after 2000.

a. What is the slope of the graph of this function?


b. Interpret the slope as a rate of change.


c. According to Computerworld, the number of tweets grew by 1400% from 2009 to 2010. Do your results from (b) confirm this?

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