PLEASE HELP, WILL GET BRAINIEST AND 99 points a question!!

a. Do some research and find a city that has experienced population growth.

Determine its population on January 1st of a certain year. Write an

exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the

number of years that pass, x after a period of exponential growth. Describe

the variables and numbers that you used in your equation.

b. Find another city whose population starts larger than the city in part (a), but

that during this same time experienced population decline. Determine its

population for January 1st of the same year you picked for part (a). Write an

exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the

number of years that pass, x after a period of population decline. Describe

the variables and numbers that you used in your equation.

c. Explain the similarities and differences between your equations in (a) and

(b).

d. During what year will the population of city (a) first exceed that of city (b)?

Show all of your work and explain your steps.

e. During what year will the population of city (a) be at least twice the size of

the population of city (b)? Show all of your work and explain your steps.