In the year 2001, a total of 7.7 million passengers took a cruise vacation. The global cruise industry has been growing at 7% per year for the last decade. Assume that this growth rate continues.

Write a formula for to approximate the number, N, of cruise passengers (in millions) t years after 2001.
How many cruise passengers (in millions) are predicted in the year 2011?
How many cruise passengers (in millions) were there in the year 2000?

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. he needs to schedule employee to staff the deli department for no more that 260 person-hours per week. tom has one part-time employee who works 20 person-hours per week. each full-time employee works 40 person-hours per week. write and inequality to determine n, the number of full-time employees tom may schedule, so that his employees work on more than 260 person-hours per week. graph the solution set to this inequality.