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The population of greenville is currently 50,000 and declines at a rate of 1.2% every year. This models:

Exponential growth.
Exponential logarithm
Exponential decay

User Kalls
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declines means getting less in number

So its decay

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User Fernando Andrade
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Exponential decay. Decay is clear, less. Exponential logarithm is contradictory.

So. the answer is
Exponential decay

Formula: 50000/1.12^years, which could be rewritten as 50,000/e^(number*years), and so it is exponential.
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