Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation for Calculus, 5th Edition

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118583191
ISBN 13: 978-1-11858-319-7

Chapter 2 - Functions - 2.4 Preview of Transformations: Shifts - Exercises and Problems for Section 2.4 - Exercises and Problems - Page 97: 18

Answer

a) A population that is always 100 people larger than the original population. b) A population that has the same number of people as the original population, but the number occurs 100 years earlier.

Work Step by Step

(a) $P(t)+100$ describes a population that is always 100 people larger than the original population. (b) $P(t+100)$ describes a population that has the same number of people as the original population, but the number occurs 100 years earlier.
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