In 1999, Charlie received the family heirloom marble

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In 1999, Charlie received the family heirloom marble collection consisting of 1239 marbles. Charlie's great-grandfather had started the original marble collection in 1905. Each year, Charlie's great-grandfather had added the same number of marbles to his collection. When he passed them on to his son, he insisted that each future generation add the same number of marbles per year to the collection. When Charlie's father received the collection in 1966, there were 810 marbles. B-17 HW eTool (Desmos). Homework Help a. By the time Charlie inherited the collection, for how many years had it been in existence? b. How many marbles are added to the collection each year? c. Use the information you found in part (b) to figure out how many marbles were in the original collection when Charlie's great-grandfather started it. d. Generalize this situation by writing a function describing the growth of the marble collection for each year (n) since Charlie's great-grandfather started it. e. How old will the marble collection be when Charlie (or one of his children) has more than 2000 marbles? In what year will this occur?