The population of watesville decreases at a rate of 1.6% each year if the population was 62,500 in 2015 what will it be in 2021

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to first find the model for this particular situation, knowing that this is an exponential decay problem. The main equation for exponential growth/decay (as far as population goes for our problem) is

where a is the initial population, b is the rate of decrease in the population which can also be written as (1 - r), y is the population after a certain amount of time, x, goes by. We will let year 2015 = 0 so year 2021 can = 6. This keeps our numbers lower and doesn't change the answer!

Our initial population in the year x = 0 is 62500. Our rate of decay is

(1 - .016) so our b value is .984

Filling in to find our model:

Now we can use that model and sub in a 6 for x to find the population in the year 2021:

and

y = 62500(.9077590568) so

y = 56734.9 or, rounded to the nearest person, 56735

what is the graph

step-by-step explanation:

a function could be identified in 3 ways either on a chart,graph, or ordered pairs. first a function is that each point has its own. the rule is that there can be many x's to one y but there can not be 2 x's at different y's. so on a graph when you put a straight line through the y's there should be one dot only to be a function.

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