Question

The population of California in 1998 was about 33 million and increased by a factor of 1.012 each year. What was the population in 2010?

Answer 1

Equation required for this is:

33,000,000 • 1.012^n = answer

Where n is number of years. The years from 1998 to 2010 is 12.

33,000,000 • 1.012^12 = 38,078,522

There’s the answer