A negative number is a number that isn’t going down and a positive is a number that is going up on a number scale
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Hello!</h2>
The answer is:
In 2036 there will be a population of 32309 rabbits.
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Why?</h2>
We can calculate the exponential decay using the following function:

Where,
Start Amount, is the starting value or amount.
Percent, is the decay rate.
t, is the time elapsed.
We are given:

Now, substituting it into the equation, we have:






Hence, we have that in 2036 the population of rabbis will be 32309 rabbits.
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If im correct it would be -2(2)+4(-2)-5 which is -4-8-5 which would be -17