From 1995 to 2003, the amount of mail M (in billions of pieces) handled by the U.S. Postal Service can be modeled by M=0.05(t^4-18t^3+89t^2-32t+3680). Where t is the number of years since 1995. In which year was there about 204,000,000,000 pieces of mail handled?
a. write a polynomial equation that can be used to answer the question

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From  1995 to 2003, the amount of mail M (in billions of pieces) handled by the U.S. Postal Service can be modeled by M=0.05(t^4-18t^3+89t^2-32t+3680).  Where t is the number of years since 1995.  In which year was there about 204,000,000,000 pieces of mail handled?
a. write a polynomial equation that can be used to answer the question

anonymous · Answer

0.05(t^4-18t^3+89t^2-32t+3680) = 204

anonymous · Answer

Actually that will give you the number of years since 1995