Part One: City Ratios

Copy and Paste the chart and questions of part one into word

1. Does the industrial to commercial ration change with the size of a city? In what way?
2. Why do you think the ratio changes?
3. Give a two examples of of a local commercial businesses and two industrial businesses?

Directions for the above chart

1. One by one, open up different sized cities. Let it run in cheetah for one year. Then open the graph window and record the population information for each city.
2. DO NOT SAVE INFORMATION AFTER YOU ARE DONE.

Part Two: Taxes and City Finance

1.  How does the tax rate affect your population?
2. Is there a problem with a low tax rate?
3. Name ten things taxes can be spent on in a city.

Directions

1. Open up Lakeland
2. Pause and no disaster
3. Check current population and mark in the box.
4. Open the budget and raise or lower the taxes rate.
5. Run the city for about five year and remark population and budget
6. DO NOT SAVE INFORMATION AFTER YOU ARE DONE.
7. Reload lake and do the same experiment at a different rate.