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2.4 Exercise 79

Avg difficulty 2.5

Consider this scenario: In 2004, a school population was 1,700. By 2012 the population had grown to 2,500.

Assume the population is changing linearly.

  1. ⓐ How much did the population grow between the year 2004 and 2012?
  2. ⓑ What is the average population growth per year?
  3. ⓒ Find an equation for the population, P, of the school t years after 2004.

OpenStax Precalculus 2e, 2.4 Fitting Linear Models to Data, exercise 79

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