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Please someone help me in 1985, there were 285 cell phone subscribers in the small town of glenwood. the number of subscribers increased by 75% per year after 1985. Find out the number of subscribers in 2008?

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If the number of subscribers increases by 75% each year, then the number of subscribers each year is 175% the number of the previous year. So we need to multiply by 1.75 each year to get the next years number.

Since 2008 is 23 years after 1985, we'd have to multiply the 1985 number by 1.75 twenty-three times:

285 (1.75)^23 ≈ 110,845,988

That seems a bit crazy, since Glenwood is a small town, but so is a 75% growth each year for 23 years.

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