The sales tax in your city is 4.4%, and an item costs $3, before tax.
How much tax would you pay on that item?

Do some research and find a city that has experienced population growth. determine its population on january 1st of a certain year. write an exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the number of years that pass, x after a period of exponential growth. describe the variables and numbers that you used in your equation.