Question

An animal reserve has 20,000 elk. The population is increasing at a rate of 8% per year. This can be modeled by the function P(t) = 20,000 (1.08)^t where t represents time in years and P(t) represents the elk population. What is the estimated population of elk in 6 years?

Answer 1

The answer would be 31,737 elks.

Explanation:

You would solve this by multiplying 1.08 by the power of 6 which equals 1.586874322944. You would then multiply this number by 20,000 which equals 31,737.4865 but since you can’t have .4865 of an elk the answer is just 31,737.

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