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The population of Toledo. Ohio was 333 thousand in 1990 and was decreasing at an average a...

The population of Toledo. Ohio was 333 thousand in 1990 and was decreasing at an average annual rate of 0.59% throughout the 1990s. Assuming that this rate of decline continues

a. find a natural growth function P(t) that gives the population of Toledo as a function of t, years after 1990.


b. use your function model to predict the population of Toledo in How does your prediction compare to the actual 2003 population of 308,973?


c. use your function model to predict the year in which the population of Toledo will fall to 280 thousand.

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 3.2