In 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore initiated what has since become known as Moore's law: the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits will double approximately every 18 months. In the table below, the first row lists different years and the second row lists the number of transistors (in thousands) for different years.

a. Construct a time-series graph of these data, using a uniform scale on both axes.

b. Make an exponential graph of these data in which the subdivisions on the vertical axis are 0, 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, and 100,000,000.

c. Compare the graphs in parts a and b.

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Year Transistors Year Transistors 1971 1974 1978 1982 1985 1989 993 23 29 120 275 1180 3100 1997 2000 2002 2003 2007 2011 7500 42,000 220,000 410,000 789,000 2,600,000