The document provides an explanation and solution for exponential modeling of population growth. It shows that if the initial population (A0) is 472 and the population increases to 609 after 17 years, then the exponential growth model is either: A = 472(10^0.0065)t Or A = 472(e^0.01499)t It then uses one of the models to calculate that if the initial population is 472 and it is growing exponentially, it will take approximately 39 years for the population to reach 851 people.