International Travel to the United States The number of millions of visitors to the United States can be modeled by
a. Use the model to find the increase in the number of visitors to the United States from 2000 to 2008.
b. When would the number of visitors exceed 84,000,000, according to the model?
(Source: Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, U.S. Department of Commerce)
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