Question 2.The population growth rate of New York City has fluctuated tremendously in the last 200 years, the highest rate estimated at 126.8% in 1900. In 2001, the population of the city was 8,008,288, up 2.1% from 2000. If we assume
that the annual population growth rate stayed at 2.1% from the year 2000 onward, in what year would we expect bt
the population of New York City to have exceeded ten million people? Be sure to include the explicit formula you
use to arrive at your answer.

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step-by-step explanation:

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for