(a) A town has a population of 5000 persons, but is expected to grow by 2% every year. (i) What would be the population size in 7 years? (ii) Find the sum of the first eight terms of the sequence 1/8, -1/4,1/2,...

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(a) A town has a population of 5000 persons, but is expected to grow by 2% every year.
(i) What would be the population size in 7 years?
(ii) Find the sum of the first eight terms of the sequence
1/8, -1/4,1/2,...

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