Access and knowledge of Microsoft Excel version 5.0. Also, since this lesson uses Excel files, Netscape must be configured to recognize these files. Click here to learn how. This lesson will explore how to find exponential fits to various data sets. We will save the world record times analysis as an exercise for later.
Population growth is a major concern for many countries around the world.
These countries fear that one day their population will become so large that they will not be able to provide the basic necessities, such as food and shelter, to their people. Some countries such as China have implemented policies that limit the amount of children a family can have. Other countries in the world, however, have no such policies and their populations continue to spiral. These are a few of the reasons that it is important to study population growths. In this lesson, we will explore a method of modeling a population by an exponential equation.