A certain forest covers an area of 2900 km^2. Suppose that each year this area decreases by 3%. What will the area be after 6 years?

Question

A certain forest covers an area of 2900 km^2. Suppose that each year this area decreases by 3%. What will the area be after 6 years?

Answer 1

Since each year the area decreases 3%, there would be 97% left from the year before. So, after 6 years, there would be 0.97⁶ left, which is roughly 0.808. Thus, there would be roughly 2900*0.808 or 2343 km² remaining

Answer 2

A = 2900(0.97)⁶

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