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Water Pollution At one time the Thames River in England supported an abundant community of...

Water Pollution At one time the Thames River in England supported an abundant community of fish. Pollution then destroyed all the fish in a 40-mile stretch near its mouth for a 45-year period beginning in 1915. Since then, improvement of sewage treatment facilities and other ecological steps have resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of different fish present. The num­ber of species present from 1967 to 1978 can be modeled by f(x) = 6.15x − 12,059, where x is the year.

(a) Estimate the year when the number of species first exceeded 70.


(b) Estimate the years when the number of species was between 50 and 100.

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