#Expotential growth

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spring dagger
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Anyone able to help with this?

knotty falcon
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amount of corn increases by x% every year

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and yk that 210k tonnes exported in 2012 and 806736 in 2016

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so you can construct the following equation

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210,000 * x^4 = 806736

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x is the increase and power of 4 because 4 years

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solving the equation gives 1.4 or 7/5

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so the amount of corn increases by 40% every year

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let the amount of corn in 2007 be y

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we can say that

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y * 1.4^5 = 210000 OR y * 1.4^9 = 806736 both will give the same answer

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solve for y in either equation and ur done