The population of a town begins with 100,000 people in 2000 and decreases by 2% each year. Write an exponentil decay function that represents the population of the town membership in t years after 2000. How many members will there be is 2005? Round your answer to the nearest ten thousand.

[10 points, algebra 2-simplifying complex fractions]according to my answer key the restrictions are -1 and 4. but why not positive 1?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Kendra had twice as much money as kareem. kendra later spent $8 and kareem earned $6. by then, the two had the same amount of money. how much money did each have originally?