5. Experts fear that without conservation efforts, an endangered species could disappear from the wild by 2022. Just one hundred years ago, there were at least 100,000 of this endangered species. By 2010, the estimated world population of this endangered species was
7600. The bar graph shows the estimated world population of this endangered species for selected years from 1970 through 2010. Also
shown is a polynomial function, with its graph, that models the data. Use this information to complete parts a through c.
Click the icon to view the bar gilph and the graph of the polynomial function.
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a. Find and interpret f(40).