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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Solution :
Correct Option: 3 (representing )
Let be the population at the beginning of year (where corresponds to 2019).
We are given the recurrence relation:
Let us write down the terms for the first few years to find a pattern:
(beginning of 2019)
(beginning of 2020)
In general, for the beginning of year (which is ):
The expression in the parentheses is a geometric progression with first term , common ratio , and terms.
The sum of this GP is:
Substituting this back into the formula:
We need the population in the beginning of 2034.
Here, years.
Substituting :
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