SOLUTION: The fox population in a certain region has an annual growth rate of 6% per year. In the year 2012, there were 23710 foxes counted in the area. Write a function, f(t), that mod

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Question 1186684: The fox population in a certain region has an annual growth rate of 6% per year. In the year 2012, there were 23710 foxes counted in the area.

Write a function, f(t), that models the number of foxes in the population at t years after 2012. Assume a continuous growth rate.
What is the fox population predicted to be in 2020?

Answer by ikleyn(52855)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The fox population in a certain region has an annual growth rate of 6% per year.
In the year 2012, there were 23710 foxes counted in the area.
Write a function, f(t), that models the number of foxes in the population at t years after 2012.
Assume a continuous growth rate.
What is the fox population predicted to be in 2020?
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The requested function is 

    f(t) =  = ,

where t is the number of years after 2012.



The fox population in 2020, 8 years after 2012 is

     = 37790   (approximately).    ANSWER

Solved.

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