The town of Pawnee, Indiana has a population of 65,000 and is growing at a rate of 1800 people a year. The neighboring city of Eagleton, Indiana has a population of 81,500 and is decreasing at a rate of 560 people a year. Write an equation that Leslie Knope could use to find how many years it will take for Pawnee’s population to be the same as Eagleton’s.
Use t to represent the number of years.