Marion and Levy County are negotiating a new landfill disposal contract to haul the waste of both counties to a central landfill owned and operated by a neighboring county. Both counties have an estimated per capita garbage generation rate of 4.7lbs and populations shown in the table below. Based on a previous analysis, the population of both counties is expected to remain constant for the next 150 years. Let 1 ton =2,000lbs a) In what year after will the yearly waste generation (tons/year) of both counties equal each other? Answer: 2051 b) What is the difference in years between both counties to reach a waste generation rate of 150,000 tons/year? Answer: 63.05 years