A town has a population of 5000 persons, but is expected to grow by 2% every year. (i) What wound 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,.... Please show working.

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A town has a population of 5000 persons, but is expected to grow by 2% every year.
(i) What wound 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,.... Please show working.

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