Question

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A town currently has a population of 1,000,000, and the population is increasing 6 percent every year. Write a recursive function in now-next form to predict the population at any year in the future.

Answer 1

Answer: The actual answer is:

next = now x 1.06, starting at 1,000,000

Answer 2

Y=x(t)(0.06) + x

Y =predicted population

X= population currently

t= number of years

Y= 60000(t) + 1000000

Explanation:

Let the current population be x

X= 1000000

The rate of increase= 6% each year

Let the the predicted population= y

If the population is to increase by 6% each year the function predicting the population at the future will be

Y=x(t)(0.06) + x

The only changing value in the above formula is the time.

Y= 1000000(0.06)(t) +1000000

Y= 60000(t) + 1000000