Cherry Hill Orchards produced 500 tons of cherries during their first year of business, 2012. Since then, the cherry harvest continues to increase in production by 5.7% over the previous year. Write an exponential function, f(x), that models the tons of cherries produced by Cherry Hill Orchards x years after 2012.
A. f(x)=500(1.057)x
B. f(x)=50(1.057)x
C. f(x)=500(0.057)x
D. f(x)=500(1.57)x