A population numbers 16,000 organisms initially and decreases by 5.1% each year.

Question

A population numbers 16,000 organisms initially and decreases by 5.1% each year.

Suppose P represents population, and t the number of years of growth. An exponential model for the population can be written in the form P = a ⋅ b t where

P =

Answer 1

P(t) = 16000(0.99949)^t