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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.

26) -2(7x) = (-2 • 7) x a. associative property of addition b. associative property of multiplication c. commutative property of multiplication d. commutative property of addition

At your job you're paid $50 per week plus $3 per sale at least how many saled do you need to make in order to have over $250