Lorna knows that the species of fish in her pond is modeled by a logistic population model with a relative growth rate of 0.4 per year. Sergio, her husband, notes that the carrying capacity of the pond is 15 000. If at the start, the pond has 500 fishes, How many fishes will there be after 5 years?    a. 3044 b. 3045 c. 3046 d. 3047

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Chapter6: Exponential And Logarithmic Functions
Section6.8: Fitting Exponential Models To Data
Problem 11SE: To the nearest whole number, what is the initial value of a population modeled by the logistic...
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Lorna knows that the species of fish in her pond is modeled by a logistic population model with a relative growth rate of 0.4 per year. Sergio, her husband, notes that the carrying capacity of the pond is 15 000. If at the start, the pond has 500 fishes, How many fishes will there be after 5 years? 
 
a. 3044
b. 3045
c. 3046
d. 3047
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