Brian has been playing a game where he can create towns and help his empire expand. Each town he has allows him to create 1.17 times as many villagers as he had in the town before. The game gave Brian 8 villagers to start with.

Explain to Brian how to create an equation to predict the number of villagers in any specific town.

Then show how to use your equation to solve for the number of villagers he can create to live in his 16th town