#Expotential growth
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amount of corn increases by x% every year
and yk that 210k tonnes exported in 2012 and 806736 in 2016
so you can construct the following equation
210,000 * x^4 = 806736
x is the increase and power of 4 because 4 years
solving the equation gives 1.4 or 7/5
so the amount of corn increases by 40% every year
let the amount of corn in 2007 be y
we can say that
y * 1.4^5 = 210000 OR y * 1.4^9 = 806736 both will give the same answer
solve for y in either equation and ur done