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MATH221 December 2019

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In each of the following, indicate the correct answer (and only the correct answer) by circling the appropriate letter. You do not have to show your work in this question. A population of raccoons has two classes: juveniles and adults. Let the population in year $n$ be given by the vector ${\bf {x}}_{n}={\begin{bmatrix}j_{n}\\a_{n}\end{bmatrix}}$ where $j_{n}$ and $a_{n}$ indicate juveniles and adults at year $n$ respectively. Wildlife biologists determine that each year, $50\%$ of the juveniles mature to become adults in the following year (the rest die), and $50\%$ of the adults survive to the following year. Additionally, each adult has 2 offspring each year. Suppose that the raccoon population in 2019 is given by ${\bf {x}}_{2019}={\begin{bmatrix}12\\8\end{bmatrix}}$. Find the population vector for 2017, that is, calculate ${\bf {x}}_{2017}$. A: $\;{\begin{bmatrix}24\\10\end{bmatrix}}\quad$ B: $\;{\begin{bmatrix}20\\17\end{bmatrix}}\quad$ C: $\;{\begin{bmatrix}10\\6\end{bmatrix}}\quad$ D: $\;{\begin{bmatrix}20\\4\end{bmatrix}}\quad$ E: $\;{\begin{bmatrix}7\\5\end{bmatrix}}$

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