A scientist studies the population of an insect colony. she begins her study with 10,000 insects and measures the population of the colony each year. She uses the given formula to model the insect population, P, t years after the beginning of the study. P=10,000(1.08)^t. by what percentage does the insect population grow each year?

Different type of real numbers include natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, irrational numbers, and rational numbers. Natural numbers are the set of numbers (1, 2, 3, 4...) also known as counting numbers. Whole numbers are natural numbers including zero (0, 1, 2, 3, 4...). Integers are the set of whole numbers and their opposites (-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...). Irrational numbers are numbers that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers. Their decimal expansions are nonending and nonrepeating. An example of an irrational number is pi (3.14). A rational number is a number that can be written as a fraction. It includes integers, terminating decimals, and repeating decimals. An example of a rational number is the number 214.

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