By using U.S. Department of Energy data for selected years from 2010 and projected to 2032, the millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from biomass energy combustion in the United States can be modeled with the function

where t is the number of years past 2010.
(a) Find the function that models the rate of change of E(t). Report this function as E`(t) with three significant digits.
(b) Find and interpret E`(15).

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1310 E(t) 1+ 2.95e -0.0619t