U.S. craft-beer breweries (breweries that make fewer than 6 million barrels annually and are less than 25% owned by big breweries) have been doing booming business. The number of these small breweries from 2008 through 2012 can be modeled by using a quadratic function of the form f(t) = at2 + bt + c where a, b, and c are constants and t is measured in years, with t = 0 corresponding to 2008.†   (a) Find a, b, and c if f(0) = 1,547, f(2) = 1,802, and f(4) = 2,403.   a= b= c=   (b) Use the model obtained in part (a) to estimate the number of craft-beer breweries in 2014, assuming that the trend continued. (Round your answer to the nearest integer.)

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U.S. craft-beer breweries (breweries that make fewer than 6 million barrels annually and are less than 25% owned by big breweries) have been doing booming business. The number of these small breweries from 2008 through 2012 can be modeled by using a quadratic function of the form
f(t) = at2 + bt + c
where a, b, and c are constants and t is measured in years, with
t = 0
corresponding to 2008.†
 
(a) Find a, b, and c if f(0) = 1,547, f(2) = 1,802, and f(4) = 2,403.
 
a=
b=
c=
 
(b) Use the model obtained in part (a) to estimate the number of craft-beer breweries in 2014, assuming that the trend continued. (Round your answer to the nearest integer.)
 
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