900 ÷ 72 = 12.5 minutes
Thus the correct answer is option A .
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
The population of a community is known to increase at a rate proportional to the number of people present at time t.
This means that the population growth is modeled by the following differential equation:

Which has the following solution:

In which P(t) is the population after t years, P(0) is the initial population and r is the growth rate.
The population has doubled in 10 years
This means that
. We use this to find r.







So the equation that will estimate the population of the community in t years is:

You put all the numbers on one side of the equation and letters on another.
0.25r + 0.5r - r = 0.5 +0.125
-0.75r = 0.625 divide both sides by -0.75
r = -0.125
When simplifying you need to be able to divide both the top and bottom number in the fraction by one of their factors. A number will be fully simplified when they become a prime number or have one as the numerator.