Answer and Explanation
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is J
Explanation
The initial quantity is 10,000, the base is 1+2%, and the exponent is t.
Use the following information to answer questions 42-44.
A 500-square-mile national park in Kenya has large and small protected animals. The number of large protected animals at the beginning of 2014 is given in the table below.
At the beginning of 2014, the number of all protected animals in the park was 10,000. Zoologists predict that for each year from 2015 to 2019, the total number of protected animals in the park at the beginning of the year will be 2% more than the number of protected animals in the park at the beginning of the previous year.
44. Let t be a positive integer less than 6. Based on the zoologists' prediction, which of the following expressions represents the number of protected animals in the park t years after the beginning of 2014 ?