Following an unexplained decline in the number of birds of prey on his property, a farmer sees a drastic rise in its small mammal population. The function M(t)=500(1.3)t can be used to estimate the number of small mammals on the premises within t years if hawks, owls, and similar birds fail to return.
Estimate the number of small mammals in the area 2

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answer: the answer is 110

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8.75

how-to:

first, we need to find what we have to work with.

since i know that we have 7 (years) and 0.8 (inches), we can use these to solve and find the equation!

secondly, what you want to do, is see that we need to know how much growth out of the 0.8 inches he got in only 1 year, instead of 7 years.

let's try to divide.

7 ÷ 0.8 = 8.75