1. Australia experienced a major pest problem in the early 20th century. The pest? Rabbits. In 1859, 24 rabbits were released by Thomas Austin at Barwon Park. In 1926, there were an estimated 10 billion rabbits in Australia. Needless to say, the Australian government spent a tremendous amount of time and money to get the rabbit problem under control. (To find more on this topic, visit Australia's Department of Environment and Primary Industries website under Agriculture.) 
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3. a). Based only on the information above, write an exponential function that would model Australia's rabbit population growth. 
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5. b). The model you created from the data in the problem is obviously a huge simplification from the actual function of the number of rabbits in any given year from 1859 to 1926. Name at least one complicating factor (about rabbits) that might make the graph of your function look quite different than the graph of the actual function.

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