Tiana is looking up her county's census data for a school project. Her county conducts a census every decade. She finds that the population was about 641,000 the year she was born, and that it had decreased to about 634,590 a decade later. Tiana reads that the population of the county is expected to continue decreasing each decade.
Write an exponential equation in the form y=a(b)x that can model the county population, y, x decades after Tiana was born.
Use whole numbers, decimals, or simplified fractions for the values of a and b.
y =
How many decades after Tiana was born will the county population fall below 600,000?
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