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There are 198,000 people in your city, and the population increases by 5% each week. Write equation modeling the number of people that are in your city (let that be P) w weeks from now

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\begin{gathered} w=\text{ number of weeks} \\ P=\text{ number of people} \\ r=5\text{ \% each week=0.05} \\ P(w)=198,000(1+0.05)^w \end{gathered}

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