Homework Help: math

Posted by Brad on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 4:07pm.

A population is increasing according to the exponential function defined by y = 2e0.02x, where y is in millions and x is the number of years. How large will the population be in 3 years?

math - Steve, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 4:18pm
what's the problem? plug in 3 for x:

y = 2e^0.06 = 2.12

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