SOLUTION: A rural population is falling at a rate of 0.25% per year. If you wish to calculate its exact half-life, you should set the fractional growth rate per year to what?

SOLUTION: A rural population is falling at a rate of 0.25% per year. If you wish to calculate its exact half-life, you should set the fractional growth rate per year to what?

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Question 1014910: A rural population is falling at a rate of 0.25% per year. If you wish to calculate its exact half-life, you should set the fractional growth rate per year to what?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
75%, or 0.75.
The function then becomes .
To find the half-life set and solve for t.
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