Point slope Form - Town Population

Question

A town's population increases at a constant rate. In 2002 the population was 67,632. By 2019 the population had increased to 214,682. Assume this trend continues.

Predict the population in 2025.

Identify the year in which the population will reach 298,000.

Answer 1

Hi Joshua,

If you set the year 2000 to zero, then your data can be organized into these ordered pairs:

(2, 67632)

(19, 214682)

(21, _______?).

The question suggests that the population is changing by the same amount each year, and there will be two more years of growth at that pace after 2019.

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