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Question 1129960: The population of a town is increasing by 648 people per year. State whether this growth is linear or exponential. If the population is 1400 today, what will the population be in three years?
Is the population growth linear or exponential? _____
What will the population be in three years? ______
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is linear growth
The equation is
where is the current population
and is the number of yrs from today
3,344 population in 3 yrs
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