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Interpret time in exponential models

Arthur sent a chain letter to his friends, asking them to forward the letter to more friends.
The relationship between the elapsed time tt, in months, since Arthur sent the letter, and the number of people, P(t)P(t), who receive the email is modeled by the following function:

Complete the following sentence about the growth rate of people who receive the email.
The number of people who receive the email grows by a factor of 55 every
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 66
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/53/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/47/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/41\ 3/4
  • an exact decimal, like 0.750.75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12 pi12\ \text{pi} or 2/3 pi2/3\ \text{pi}
months.