SOLUTION: In favourable BREEding conditions , a colony of insects can multiply 10 fold every three weeks. IF there are now 500 insects in the colony, express the number of insects N as a fu

Question 805686: In favourable BREEding conditions , a colony of insects can multiply 10 fold every three weeks. IF there are now 500 insects in the colony, express the number of insects N as a function of elapsed time W weeks.
Can you please help me out? Thanks so much in advance:)
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I = initial pop
P = resulting pop in three weeks
, w is number of weeks.
keeping the time unit as weeks.

You wanted to call the population , N, so say
, but you would still want to compute k before finishing the function.
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