Experts fear that withoui conservation effons, tigers could disappear from the wild by

Chapter 3, Problem 73

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Experts fear that withoui conservation effons, tigers could disappear from the wild by 2022. Just one hwulred years ago, there were at leost /00,000 wild tigers. By 2010, the estimated world tiger population wa.; 3200. The bar graph shows the estimated world tiger population for selfxted years from 1970 through 2010. Also shown is a polynomial function, wiJh ifs graph. that models the data. Use this infonnation to solve Exercises 73-74. Estimated World g~r Population Vanishing Tigers y 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20.000 15,000 10,000 5000 Year a. Find and interpret f( 40). Identify this information as apoint on the graph offb. Does /(40) 0\1e restimate or underestimate the actual datashown by the bar graph? By how much?r. Use the Leading Coefficient Test to dctennine the endbehavior to the right for the gr:.>h of f. Will this functionbe useful in modeling the \ii>rld tiger population ifconservation efforts to save wil!tigcrs fail? Explain youranswer.