SOLUTION: The population of Boomtown is currently 12000 and expected to grow by 3.5% over the next year. What will its population be by then? The population of Dullsville, on the other ha

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Question 1202474: The population of Boomtown is currently 12000 and expected to grow by 3.5% over the next year. What will its population be by then?
The population of Dullsville, on the other hand, is currently 10000 and expected to decrease by 5% over the next year. What will its population be by then?
Answer by ikleyn(52777)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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(a) The population of Boomtown is currently 12000 and expected to grow by 3.5%
over the next year. What will its population be by then?

(b) The population of Dullsville, on the other hand, is currently 10000 and expected
to decrease by 5% over the next year. What will its population be by then?
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(a)  12000*(1+0.035) = 12000*1.035 = 12420.      ANSWER


(b)  10000*(1-0.05)  = 10000*0.95  =  9500.      ANSWER

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