Excursions in Modern Mathematics (9th Edition)
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780134468372
Author: Peter Tannenbaum
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 26E
The world population reached 6 billion people in 1999 and 7 billion in 2012. (Source: Negative Population Growth, www.npg.org.). Assuming a linear growth model for the world population,
a. predict the year when the world population would reach 8 billion.
b. predict the world population in 2020.
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