Algebra-1

1. Determine the number of doubling periods:

Since the number of employees doubles each month and we want to know the number of employees after 8 months, the number of doubling periods  is equal to the number of months, which is .

2. Use the exponential growth formula:

The formula for exponential growth in this case is , where:

 is the final number of employees.

 is the initial number of employees. Here, .

 is the number of doubling periods, which is

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