ll then be 5.52 billion. One thing that I am concerned about is how high the population will be when my children are growing up. I plan to have children when I am about 27 so when my child is about 20, the year will be 2027 and the population will be 3.4 billion. Next we did the same procedure for the world population. In this case, the exponential model fit the data more efficiently. The equation was 2,552,666,405 = 1.018,677,273^x, r = .998328246. The world population for the year 2000 is will be 6.44 billion. Upon retiring the world population will be 1.5 trillion people. Comparing the two models the exponential model makes sense because the population is growing at such a rapid rate. The linear model shows barely any rise. The exponential graph shows a rise in population that more accurately depicts the rate of change. The United States is 16.8 percent of the world’s population. In the future the percentage of the United States will become a greater percent of the world population. All in all the models make predictions about the population in the future by taking the data and putting it into a table, and looking at different years and the new populations that will occur. To plan for the future we need to predict how many people we will have to feed and house. We will even have to predict how many people will be starving and homeless. Having the capability to predict the future gives us great power to deal with situations and conflicts before they arise, for instance homelessness and low crops for food. Having technology to do these predictions will be a very good asset in the future. ...
