Friday, May 2, 2008

Question 4: Exponential Rates and Normalville





Presently in the town of Normalville, there is a deepening concern. The town is at a brink of having to redevelop a new part of town. For every four new citizens that the Normalville population increases, the town miust build a new house. The town has not built any homes in the last five years as they do not know how many citizens have moved into Normalville. This data table gives the population of Normalville over the last five years period.

a) How many new homes must the town of Normalville build. Round to the nearest whole house.

b) Find an exponential function, that models the population data.

c) Normalville was able to recieve government funding to build more houses for the population increase in the next four years in Normalville. Find the amount of houses need based on data given. To the nearest whole house.

d) If the house cost is $ 23052.00 to build a house how much money does Normalville need to build those houses they need.




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