When the town of manning first started its voluntary recycling program, 2500 of the town’s residence participated. the town predicts that the number of people participating in the recycling program will increase by 5% each year. which explicit rule can be used to determine the number of people participating in the program in the fifth year?

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The equation for this has to be 2500(1.05) because it increases by 5 percent the other ones give you 5% of 2500

We need the exponent to be n-1 because if not the first number will be 2625 instead of 2500

The answer is A)an = 2500(1.05)^n-1

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In all honesty, there really is no “work” per say to show. mainly it’s just using the process of elimination. the question is asking which domain(s) would be the most appropriate for the function c(n). n is the number of observed vehicles so right away, 1, 2, and 3 can be eliminated.why? 1, 2 start in the negatives and therefore it is impossible to observe negative cars. so, #4 would be the best answer to the given problem.