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Population growth rate?
5.) On December 6, 2008, the world's population was estimated to be 6,741,727,032. If the growth rate is 1.167% per year, answer the following.
A.) When will the world's population reach 10 billion.
B.) by what year will the population double?
Im having a bunch of trouble with this model.
2 Answers
- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
P = 6,741,727,032 (1.01167)^t , t = number of years
now it's easy to do A/ B/
- ?Lv 77 years ago
5.) On December 6, 2008, the world's population was estimated to be 6,741,727,032. If the
growth rate is 1.167% per year, answer the following.Â
A.) When will the world's population reach 10 billion?
t = ln(N/N0)/r (time)
N = 10,000,000,000 future population
N0 = 6,741,727,032 initial population
r = 0.01167 growth rate per year (as a decimal)
t = ln(10,000,000,000/6,741,727032)/0.01167
t = 33.78 years
Year of 10 billion = 2042 A.D.
B.) By what year will the population double?
 N = 13,483,454,064 future doubled population
t = 59.40 years
Year of Doubling = 2067 A.D.
Source(s): http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/populati.html