A fishery manager knows that her fish population naturally increases at a rate of 1.5% per month,
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A fishery manager knows that her fish population naturally increases at a rate of 1.5% per month, while 80 fish are harvested each month. Let Fn be the fish population after the nth month, where F0 = 4000 fish.
a. Write out the first five terms of the sequence {Fn}.
b. Find a recurrence relation that generates the sequence {Fn}.
c. Does the fish population decrease or increase in the long run?
d. Determine whether the fish population decreases or increases in the long run if the initial population is 5500 fish.
e. Determine the initial fish population F0 below which the population decreases.
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Calculus Early Transcendentals
ISBN: 978-0321947345
2nd edition
Authors: William L. Briggs, Lyle Cochran, Bernard Gillett
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