The Application:
The owner of the XYZ Data Company has three employees collecting data on the company's annual computer
processing demands from the monthly reports since its start-up in the year 2000. The company's data usage has
always been modeled by a linear function. Unfortunately, two of the three employees made mathematical errors
in their summaries of the annual data. Review the following data by the three employees to determine which
employee collected the data accurately. Create a current linear model that reflects the company's cumulative
computer processing demands based on the correct data collected, and use this model to predict the maximum
number of years that the company's total capacity of 50 terabytes would not be exceeded. Let x represent the
number of years after 2000.