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Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1

(REV)00th Edition

ISBN:9780395977224

Author:Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole

Publisher:Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole

Chapter8: Introduction To Functions

Section8.10: Inverse Variation

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years, the population size was

117,000.

After

years, the population size was

269,000.

What was the original population?

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