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2.3 Exercise 20

Avg difficulty 2.5

Consider this scenario: A town has an initial population of 75,000. It grows at a constant rate of 2,500 per year for 5 years.

Find the linear function that models the town’s population $P$ as a function of the year, $t ,$ where $t$ is the number of years since the model began.

OpenStax Precalculus 2e, 2.3 Modeling with Linear Functions, exercise 20

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