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this year at the texas hill country wildflower farm there are 5,000 bluebonnet flowers in bloom. the owners of the farm estimate that the number of bluebonnets that bloom each spring is growing at a rate of 5.5% per year.
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The problem statement is ambiguous but appears to ask for an equation from which current count of bluebonnet flowers could be calculated. The growth would be exponential if each year the number of bluebonnet flowers grew 5.5%. Let the rate expressed as a decimal, 0.055
Let 'y' represent the number of years and the initial count is 5000. Let 'C' represent the current count of bluebonnet flowers:
C=5000(1+0.055)^y
So when 'y=0', C=5000, when 'y=1' (after first year):
C=5275