Question

A city has a population of 340,000 people. Suppose that each year the population grows by 5.5%. What will the population be after 14 years?
Will Medal

Answer 1

@kittiwitti1
@Vocaloid

Answer 2

@jim_thompson5910

Answer 3

have you covered "compound interest" yet?

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

hmmm ok
so... what section is this covering then?

Answer 6

i just started it

Answer 7

started with math?

Answer 8

this section

Answer 9

You'll use the formula I posted previously, but now

P = 340000 (initial population)
r = 0.055 (decimal form of 5.5%)
t = 14 years

Answer 10

and this section being? this is getting a bit circular there

Answer 11

@jdoe0001 back off

Answer 12

isn't that the title of a song? =)

Answer 13

no its a big sister telling you to back off if u are going to help her, then its appreciated if not shut it

Answer 14

340000 * (1.055) ^ 14 = ?

Copy and paste "340000 * (1.055) ^ 14=" into the Google search box and the Google calculator will crank out the answer.

Give it a try.

@bri97

To read more about this type problem, go to:

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT669/Student.Folders/Rimpley/instuctionalunit/exponents.html

Answer 15

she plugged that one in and it said wrong answer

Answer 16

@Missiey

Is this answer the one that came up wrong?

Answer 17

yes she put it and said incorrect she has one more chance to get it right

Answer 18

you probably have to round to the nearest whole number

Answer 19

Check the directions for the problem, @Missiey

Answer 20

ok sorry my computer froze
yes it says round to nearest whole number

Answer 21

@bri97 What do you think the answer you should enter is after you round to the nearest whole number?

Answer 22

it cane out to be 719471 would it be 720000

Answer 23

719471 was correct
@Directrix thank you
have 4 more feel like helping