The transitive property of equality states that:

if a = b, then b = a
if a = b, then ac = bc
if a = b and b = c, then a = c
if a = b and c = c, then a + b = b + c

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.