(See Solution) Decline in farmland. The number of acres of farmland in the United States has decreased from 945 million acres in 2000 to 932 million acres in 2006.
Question: Decline in farmland. The number of acres of farmland in the United States has decreased from 945 million acres in 2000 to 932 million acres in 2006. Assume the number of acres of farmland is decreasing exponentially. Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States
a.) Find the value k, and write an equation for an equation for an exponential function that can predict the number of acres of US. farmland t years after 2000.
b.) Predict the number of acres of farmland in 2015
c.) In what year (theoretically) will there be only 800 million acres of US. farmland remaining?
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