17. A new company, Twimota, has been
steadily increasing its customer base for
• Regular
several months. After 2 months, it had
Customers
50 regular customers and after 5 months,
1 1
120
it had 125 regular customers. The table.
2
115
shows the growth rate of several other
13 198
new companies. Z. RP.2
.
4
26
Part A: Sort the companies into the
.. 245
appropriate bins based on whether they. .
are gaining customers at a higher or lower rate compared to Twimota.
Assume the growth rate of each company is constant.
Months
5
4
.. 8
1
I 10
| Company 1 || Company 2
Company 3
Company 4
Company 5
Lower Rate than Twimota
Higher Rate than Twimota
Part B: How many customers can Twimota reasonably expect to have after
one year assuming this trend continues?