Expert: Scott A Wilson - 4/26/2010

Question
•   The island’s government plans to seek damages proportional to the expected number of cancer cases caused by the radioactive materials. This expected number of cancer cases will depend on the island’s population, past and present. The representative tells you that the island’s population was 4200 in 1960 and is 14,300 today. She asks you to prepare a table showing the island’s population (accurate to the nearest one person) every 10 years after the weapons tests, from 1970 through 2030. She assures you that the population growth has been strictly exponential. There will be much repetition here; you need to show only two calculations of population in detail

Answer
In 1960, the population was 4,200.
In 2010, the population is 14,300.
The value of p, the increase each year, is (143/42)^0.02 since 1/50 = 0.02.

Note that 0.02*4200 = 84, so the numbers area 84*p^10, 84*p^20, 84*^30, 84*p^40, and 84*p^50.
All of these values shold be ronded to the nearest integer.

To get all of the value, calculate p^10 and put that in the memory.
Using a caluculator, take 84 * (recall memory) to get the 1st,
*(recall memory) for the 2nd, *(recall memory) for the 3rd, and so on.