I'm a senior and graduation is at jeopardy please please please help

Jessica has been tracking the population of a town. The population was 8,230 last year and has been increasing by 1.25 times each year. How can Jessica develop a function to model this?

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I'm a senior and graduation is at jeopardy please please please help 

Jessica has been tracking the population of a town. The population was 8,230 last year and has been increasing by 1.25 times each year. How can Jessica develop a function to model this?

anonymous · Answer

your graduation is at jeopardy because of one question? 0_0

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

Well, since it's increasing, you know it has a positive slope, and it's just a simple line of the form$$y=mx+b$$where in this case, b, which is usually the y-intercept, is the starting population, which is really the same thing, and your slope is the rate at which the population increases, and finally x is the variable that you use to represent how many years have passed by giving it different values

anonymous · Answer

Thank you SOOOOOO much

anonymous · Answer

Did the link work ?:)