Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH101/April 2007/Question 06 (a)
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Question 06 (a) |
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Full-Solution Problems. Justify your answers and show all your work. Simplification of answers is not required. The population of fish in a lake is m million, where varies with time t measured in years. The number of fish is currently 2 million. Suppose m satisfies the logistic-growth differential equation
When will the number of fish equal 3 million? You may use the fact that the general solution to the logistic-growth differential equation is where A is constant. |
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First solve for the constant A using the initial condition |
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Solution |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. With and , we know from the problem that
Solving for A, we use the fact that and see that
Cross multiplying, we see that
and solving gives . Thus, we have . We want to solve for t when . Plugging this in yields
Cross multiplying, we see that
Bringing the 3 over and dividing by 3 yields
Taking logarithms and then dividing by -16 gives
and this completes the problem. |