The population of a town is 75 000 and decreases 15% each year. Complete the exponential function that models the population afterx years f(x) = 75,000

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an exponential function of the form:

where a is the initial value and (1 - r) is the growth rate (which in our case is a decay, actually!). Our initial value is 75000 and our rate of change in the population is 15% or .15. Filling in our model:

and simplifying:

This turns out to be a decay problem because the value inside the parenthesis is less than 100%.

x is our time, so the model is as stated above.

c

step-by-step explanation:

c

step-by-step explanation: so we look at the formula un = a + (n-1)d

un is the amount of seats

n is the nth term aka row number

a is the original sequence/row number

d is the difference between each term

so in this a=22 d=6 and n can remain as n because we are simply formjng a rule

lets put these in the equation

un=22+(n-1)(6)

this is your answer to part a

however

lets double check that this is correct, we'll try putting it into the second term

un=a+(n-1)d

u2=22+(2-1)(6)

u2=22+6

u2=28

as the question said the second row has 28 seats so now we know the formula we made is correct.

as for part b

un=a+(n-1)

its asking us to find a row with 100 seats.

remember un was the amount of seata so all we do is substitute this in.

un=100 a=22 d=6

un=a+(n-1)d

100=22+(n-1)(6)

so now we simplify to find n which is the row number.

100-22=22+(n-1)(6)-22

78=(n-1)(6)

78/6=(n-1)(6)/6

13=n-1

13+1=n-1+1

14=n

so now we know that in the 14th row there is 100 seats.

hope this and that you understood! its my first time using the app or anyone out on here : p its also me to revise so a bunch! ask more questions if you dont understand ☺