One year, the population of a city was 127,000. Several years later it was 129,540. Find the percent increase.

2%

Step-by-step explanation: Method 1

Express the ending population as a percentage of the starting population:  

127000 /129540= 1.02

1.02×100=  102%

Subtract the starting 100% to get the percent increase:

102%−100%= 2%  

step-by-step explanation: where's the phrase?

b. 6

step-by-step explanation:

we are given the table representing an exponential function.

we can see from the table that, as x is increasing, the value of y is increasing in the power of 6.

i.e. the following relation is obtained,

x = 1, y = 6

x = 2, y = 36 =

x = 3, y = 216 =

x = 4, y = 1296 =

x = 5, y = 7776 =

so, the geometric series obtained is .

thus, the common ratio is given by = = 6.

hence, the common ratio is 6.