+912 1. A statue creates a shadow that is 30 ft long. The angle of elevation of the sun is 50°.
(a) Draw a diagram that represents this situation.
(b) How tall is the statue? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot. Show your work.
2. In 2010, the population of a town is 8500. The population decreases by 4.5% each year.
(a) Write an equation to find the population of the town t years after 2010.
(b) In what year will the population of the town be 7000? Show your work.
+2446 1) It turns out that someone has already asked this question already, and I just happen to remember this post from February 27 of this year. I see no reason to make a duplicate answer.
Here is the link: https://web2.0calc.com/questions/help_80894
2a) The following equation below shows the general formula for a function that has exponential growth or decay.
\(P(t)=a*b^t\)
\(P(t)\) represents the function that yields the population of the town t years after 2010.
a = initial population of town
b = rate of exponential growth or decay
Since a is the initial population of the town, a=8500.
b, in this case, represents the portion of the population that remains as a fraction or decimal. The population begins at 100%. If the population decreases by 4.5% every year, then 100%-4.5% or 95.5% represents the percentage of the population that remains. As a decimal, this would be written as 0.955.
Now that both of this function are known, we can create an equation to find the population t years after 2010.
\(P(t)=8500(0.955)^t\)
2b) Since I have generated the equation for you, do you think that you could solve the next one? Just substitute into the formula and solve.
+2446 1) It turns out that someone has already asked this question already, and I just happen to remember this post from February 27 of this year. I see no reason to make a duplicate answer.
Here is the link: https://web2.0calc.com/questions/help_80894
2a) The following equation below shows the general formula for a function that has exponential growth or decay.
\(P(t)=a*b^t\)
\(P(t)\) represents the function that yields the population of the town t years after 2010.
a = initial population of town
b = rate of exponential growth or decay
Since a is the initial population of the town, a=8500.
b, in this case, represents the portion of the population that remains as a fraction or decimal. The population begins at 100%. If the population decreases by 4.5% every year, then 100%-4.5% or 95.5% represents the percentage of the population that remains. As a decimal, this would be written as 0.955.
Now that both of this function are known, we can create an equation to find the population t years after 2010.
\(P(t)=8500(0.955)^t\)
2b) Since I have generated the equation for you, do you think that you could solve the next one? Just substitute into the formula and solve.
