CAT 2019 Progression Question (Medium)

Question

If the population of a town is in the beginning of any year, then it becomes in the beginning of the next year. If the population in the beginning of 2019 is 1000, then the population in the beginning of 2034 will be

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Step 1 We are given the population recurrence relation p_ n 1 3 2p_n Also, we know that the population in the beginning of 2019 is given by p_ 2019 1000 Our goal is to find the population in the beginning of 2034, which can be expressed as p_ 2034 To find this, we first calculate the difference in y

CAT 2019

Quantitative

Progression

Medium

If the population of a town is $p$ in the beginning of any year, then it becomes $3 + 2p$ in the beginning of the next year. If the population in the beginning of 2019 is 1000, then the population in the beginning of 2034 will be

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