Question: SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FUNDS Since its inception in 1971, socially responsible investments, or SRIs, have yielded returns to investors on par with investments in general. The assets of socially responsible funds (in billions of dollars) from 1991 through 2001 is given by
f(t) = 23.7(0.2t + 1)1.32 (0 ≤ t ≤ 11)
where t = 0 corresponds to the beginning of 1991.
a. Find the rate at which the assets of SRIs were changing at the beginning of 2000.
b. What were the assets of SRIs at the beginning of 2000?