Growth Factor in an Exponential Word Problem

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I was doing an exponential function word problem

Question:

Assume that the population of the United States is increasing exponentially with time. The 1970 census showed that the population was about 203 million. The 1980 census showed that the population had grown to about 226 million.

By what factor did the population increase from 1970 to 1980?

Here is what I did:enter image description here

I assumed that when it was asking for the "factor" is what asking for the growth factor, which in this case is 1.0107..... However, the book says it is 1.1133005.

I was wondering if anyone knew what went wrong.

Thank you