Question

Consider the population of a small town that grows according to the explicit rule:

Pn = 45000 + 85n, where n is the number of years after 2002.
1. Find P7
2. Explain what the answer for P7 represents in terms of the application. (Your
explanation should include a reference to a year.)
Please help me before it is due.

Answer 1

45595

Explanation:

plug in 7 for n and solve

This is the population 7 years after 2002(2009)