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The table above estimates the population increase of a colony of bacteria over the course of five years. Which of the following best characterizes the model for this colony's total population over time?


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Yeah Whoa Okay It's a team match Members last in

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this series We're looking at a chart here years and

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I need anyone thing a population increase Wow They're growing

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pretty fast there Well the table above shows the yearly

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population increase of a country that clearly has no birth

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control Which of the following best characterizes the model for

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this country's total population over time Well let's think about

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this This country was unpopular to start so there were

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zero people there Then the population increase of five million

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in nineteen ninety like everyone migrated there gave the country

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five million more people The next year they were ten

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million more people so a total of fifteen million gained

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so far My goodness that's a big oppel Population increase

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goes like five ten fifteen twenty twenty five Total population

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is five fifteen thirty fifty seventy five Kind of taking

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a little bit so the total population is exponentially increasing

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But that's not quite exponentially interesting but at least we're

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through with this problem So yeah the answer is a 00:01:08.49 --> [endTime] exponential growth

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