Question

A town's population has been growing linearly. in 2003 the population was 70,000. the population has been growing by 2700 people each year. write an equation for the population, p, x x years after 2003.

Answer 1

the equation is y=2,700x+70,000
the x represents the number of years the 2,700 represents the numbers of people new each year and the 70,000 represents the number of people started with in the town in 2003.