We will have the following:
First, we will have that the population change by:
So, the population changed by 703 people.
It took the follwoing number of years to change from 1431 to 2134:
So, it took 4 years to changes from 1431 to 2134.
The average population growth per year is of 175.75 people per year.
The population in 2000 would have been:
So, the population in 2000 would have been approximately 1429 people.
We will have that the equation for the population would be:
So, the equation would be:
Now, we predict the number of people of the town in 2014:
So, there will be approximately 3890 people of the town in 2014.