Barney is an ecologist who studies the change in the tiger population of Siberia over time.
The relationship between the elapsed time t, in decades, since Barney started studying the population, and
the number of tigers, N(t), is modeled by the following function,
8
t
N(t) = 710 .
(
125
Complete the following sentence about the rate of change in the tiger population. Round your answer to
two decimal places,
The tiger population loses
3/5
of its size every
decades,