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Yeah Whoa Okay S eighty shmoop for's Got another problem

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coming at you with this equation equals X times Quantity

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one plus Why does he over three And we're gonna

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play to this word problem What does the exponents suggests

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Well here's the thing We know that Z has to

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be in units of years since the problems said the

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rate of growth is annual and the whole exponents tells

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us how many times we apply the rate of growth

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Why to the starting value like experiments are all about

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the times you compound something So if you see a

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financial investment it's one plus point Oh eight minutes going

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to grow at eight percent a year you're going to

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see it written like that one plus point Oh wait

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to whatever power like the seventh power means going compound

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for seven years at eight percent and be whatever it

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is at the end So in this case looking at

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are jumbled arrangement of terms The fractions E over three

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means that each year the population grows by one third

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of the growth rate So actually it is A In

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a short three years the population will grow by a

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nice even Why on Hey we know that the growth

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rate is two percent so you know that's why it's

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gotta be a there right So if it really did

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take one third of the year for the population to

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grow wealthy exponents would be three Z Then he's gonna

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work for B there This is the same as population

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growing by two percent three times a year So get

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rid of D An annual growth by two thirds of

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a percent would require whitey equal point zero zero six

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six seven in an exponents of just see So it

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ain't any of those It's a It takes three years

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for the population to grow by two percent It sounds 00:01:39.59 --> [endTime] like a really sleepy town

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