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Growth and Decay Factors Worksheet with Answer Key

7 problems on growth and decay factors: finding the factor per period, telling growth from decay and the percent rate, a rare coin's value, a swinging pendulum, two towns with falling populations, comparing two accounts, converting a monthly rate to yearly, and a book club. 2 pages, with a worked answer key.

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  1. Write the factor per period, or say growth or decay and the percent rate.
    grows 9% a yearfalls 45% an hourgrows 200% a decadefalls 2.5% a monthb = 0.97
  2. Word problem: the value of Hannah's rare coin growing 3% a year.
  3. Word problem: how far Jack's pendulum swings as the swings shrink.
  4. Word problem: two towns whose populations fall by different percents.
  5. Word problem: which of Priya's two accounts pays more over 10 years.
  6. Check Omar's claim that 3% growth a month makes 36% a year.
  7. Show a book club's growth over any three years is a fixed factor.

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