SOLUTION: A zoologist tracks the population of a species of butterfly at the zoo over several years. From the table of values, determine an approximate equation that models the butterfly’s
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Question 1156935: A zoologist tracks the population of a species of butterfly at the zoo over several years. From the table of values, determine an approximate equation that models the butterfly’s population growth and determine the number of years before the population is 5 times greater than the original number.
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Year(t) 0 1 2 3 4
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Population 22 29 37 48 63
P(t)
---------------------------------- Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source):
(1) What kind of equation do you want? Linear? Exponential? Something else?
(2) Do you want the equation to be determined by formal mathematical means? Or is an informal approximation enough?
(3) "5 times greater than" the original number means the original number, plus 5 times the original number; that makes 6 times the original number. Do you really mean 5 times greater (6 times as large), or do you mean 5 times as large?
