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In 2005, for each of the 14 million people present in a country, 0.028 were born and 0.008 died during the year. Using the exponential growth equation, the number of people present in 2015 is predicted to be

Answer: (B)

Solution

The intrinsic rate of increase r = birth rate − death rate = 0.028 − 0.008 = 0.02 per year; applying Nt = N0 with N0 = 14 million and t = 10

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