If each zombie creates 3 new zombies every week what is the expression for how many zombies there will be after #n# weeks?
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Explanation:
This is basically a compound interest type of formula.
If there are
then
in week
for a total of
Assuming there was
the zombie population increases by a factor of
...and so on
with the obvious result that
Note that since we don't know within any 7 day period when the generation of "new" zombies will occur, we can not reduce this to a function based on days.