Becky has been tracking the population of a town. the population was 5,340 last year and has been increasing by 1.75 times each year. how can becky develop a function to model this?

As this is an exponential function the formula is:
y=a

If:
a=y when x=0 (In this case 5,340)
b=function rule (In this case 1.75)
=# of years
then:

y=5,340

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