A population numbers 12,000 organisms initially and grows by 17.5% each year.

Question

A population numbers 12,000 organisms initially and grows by 17.5% each year.

Suppose P represents population, and t the number of years of growth. An exponential model for the population can be written in the form P = a ⋅ b t where

P =

Answer 1

P = 12000(1.175)^t