SOLUTION: a town with 10000 residents is losing .3% of the population per month due to a poor economy. I need to come up with a equation to see how many they lose in one year and then in eve

Question 963360: a town with 10000 residents is losing .3% of the population per month due to a poor economy. I need to come up with a equation to see how many they lose in one year and then in every year for 10 years. I can't use my calculator for the -0.003 so I am stumped.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Can't use the calculator, why?
First year:

Second year:

So then for each year,

Now use the calculator and calculate all the values from 3 to 10.
I'll do .

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