SOLUTION: The population of a southern city follows the exponential law. If the population doubled in size over 10 months and the current population is 80 comma 000​, what will the popula

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Question 1153274: The population of a southern city follows the exponential law. If the population doubled in size over 10 months and the current population is 80 comma 000​, what will the population be 4 years from​ now?
What will the population be 4 years from​ now?
  
The population will be approximately
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4 years = 12*4 = 48 months = 4.8 doubling periods.


Hence, the population in 4 years will be N = 80000%2A2%5E4.8 = 80000*27.85762 = 2228609.4 = 2,228,609 people, approximately.    ANSWER