With data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the following figure shows a scatter plot of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions per person for selected years from 2010 and projected to 2040, with x as the number of years past 2010.
(a) Which of the following functions would be an appropriate model: growth exponential, decay exponential, logarithmic, or logistic?
(b) The point (20, 14.8) is one of the data points plotted; interpret this point in terms of the application.

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