He population of mastertown was 23,000 in 2012. assume that mastertowns population increases at a rate of 2% per year. write an equation to model the population of mastertown (y) based on number of years since 2012 (x).

We know that the equation will have 23,000 in it, since that was the population in 2012. It's increasing at a rate of 2%. To show an increase, divide 2 by 100 and add a 1 on it. It'll be 1.02=102%. You'll be powering that number by however many years since 2012.

The answer is 3. parallelogram