SOLUTION: A certain city's population currently is 80,000. City leaders anticipate the population in future years can be predicted by the equation P(t)=80000(1.03)^t. When will the populatio

Question 373788: A certain city's population currently is 80,000. City leaders anticipate the population in future years can be predicted by the equation P(t)=80000(1.03)^t. When will the population reach 200,000 or more?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

or approximately,

We can round up to years.
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