The number of people playing a new phone app game triples every month. When the app first launched, 800 people started playing the game right away. There are currently 194,400 people playing the game.

Write an equation to represent this situation, and determine the number of months, r, that have passed since the app launched.

a. 800(1.03)ᵗ = 194,400; t = 186 months
b. 800(1.3)ᵗ = 194,400; t = 21 months
c. 800(3)ᵗ = 194,400; t = 5 months
d. 800(3)ᵗ = 194,400; t = 11 months