Question: VENTURE-CAPITAL INVESTMENT Venture-capital investment increased dramatically in the late 1990s but came to a screeching halt after the dot-com bust. The venture-capital investment (in billions of dollars) from 1995 (t = 0) through 2003 (t = 8) is approximated by the function
a. In what year did venture-capital investment peak over the period under consideration? What was the amount of that investment?
b. In what year was the venture-capital investment lowest over this period? What was the amount of that investment?