Question

Can someone please help me on this ?

A city has a population of 350,000 people. Suppose that each year the population grows by 5.5%. What will the population be after 10 years?Use the calculator provided and round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

How do I round it off ? would it just be 350?

Answer 2

I'm confused..

Answer 3

1.1 divided by 2 = ?

Answer 4

0.55

Answer 5

192500?

Answer 6

times it by 10?

Answer 7

542500?

Answer 8

so it would be 543?

Answer 9

so just 542500?

Answer 10

use \[Population = 350000\times(1 + 0.055)^{10}\]

Answer 11

it said it was wrong..

Answer 12

this is an application of exponential growth... and uses the compound interest formula as shown above

Answer 13

@campbell_st will help

Answer 14

I've already posted a solution

Answer 15

597850.56042376?

Answer 16

That's what I got.

Answer 17

well just round it to the nearest whole number

Answer 18

How?

Answer 19

what would you round 0.5 to 0 or 1

Answer 20

1?

Answer 21

great so the answer ends in 1

Answer 22

so 597851

Answer 23

Thank you