SOLUTION: The deer population of a game preserve is decreasing by 2% per year. The original population was 1850. Write an exponential decay function to model the situation. The find the popu

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Question 876630: The deer population of a game preserve is decreasing by 2% per year. The original population was 1850. Write an exponential decay function to model the situation. The find the population after 4 years.
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P%28t%29+=+1850e%5E%28-.02t%29
P%284%29+=+1850e%5E%28-.08%29 = 1708 (nearest whole number rounded Up)