The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States. In 2010, the population of this area was 5.9 million, and the exponential growth rate was 1.76% per year.

a) Find the exponential growth function.
b) Estimate the population of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area in
2016.
c) When will the population of this metropolitan area be 7 million?
d) Find the doubling time.

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