Chapter 4.3, Problem 38SE

For the following exercises, consider this scenario: The population of a city increased steadily over a ten-year span.The following ordered pairs shows the population and the year over the ten-year span, (population, year) for specific recorded years:
$\left(\text{25}00,\text{ 2}000\right),\left(\text{265}0,\text{ 2}00\text{1}\right),\left(\text{3}000,\text{ 2}00\text{3}\right),\left(\text{35}00,\text{ 2}00\text{6}\right),\left(\text{42}00,\text{ 2}0\text{1}0\right)$

38. Predict when the population will hit $\text{8},000.$