The population of a city increases by 4% per year. If this year's population is p, which expression represents next year's population?1.004p1.04p4p0.04p
Q. The population of a city increases by 4% per year. If this year's population is p, which expression represents next year's population?1.004p1.04p4p0.04p
Rephrase Question: First, let's rephrase the "What expression represents the population of a city next year if it increases by 4% from this year's population p?"
Calculate Percentage Increase: To find next year's population, we need to increase this year's population by 4%. An increase of 4% means the population will be 100% of the current population plus an additional 4%. In terms of a decimal multiplier, this is 1 (which represents the current 100%) plus 0.04 (which represents the additional 4%).
Calculate Next Year's Population: To calculate the expression for next year's population, we add 1 and 0.04 to get 1.04. Therefore, the expression for next year's population is 1.04 times this year's population, p.
Final Expression: The correct expression that represents next year's population is 1.04p. This means that the population will be 104% of this year's population.
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