Suppose that the population of a city was about 397 thousand in 2000 and had been growing by about 8.5% per year.
(a) write an explicit formula for the population of the city t years after 2000, where pt
is measured in thousands of people.
pt=
(b) if this trend continues, what will the city's population be in 2016?
thousand people
(c) when does this model predict city's population to exceed 700 thousand? round your answer to the nearest year.