The population of a town is decreasing at a rate of 1% per year in 2000 there were 1300 people write an exponential decay function to model this situation then find the population in 2008.

a.) 1200 people
b.) 1300 people
c.) 1500 people
d.) 1100 people

Simonne used the following steps to simplify the given expression. 12-3(-2x+4) step 1: 12+(-)+(-3)(4) step 2: 12+6x+(-12) step 3: 12+(-12)+6x step 4: 0+6x step 5: 6x what property of real numbers was used to transition from step 3 to step 4? •identity property of addition •inverse property of addition •associative property of addition •commutative property of addition