On the basis of data collected during an experiment, a biologist found that the growth of a fruit fly (Drosophilia) with a limed food supply could be approximated by the exponential model below, where t denotes the number of days since the beginning of the experiment.  N (t) = 400/(1 + 99 e^(-o,28 t)) a) What was the initial fruit fly population in the experiment?  _________flies b) What was the population of the fruit fly colony on the 19th day?  (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) ____________ flies

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On the basis of data collected during an experiment, a biologist found that the growth of a fruit fly (Drosophilia) with a limed food supply could be approximated by the exponential model below, where t denotes the number of days since the beginning of the experiment. 

N (t) = 400/(1 + 99 e^(-o,28 t))

a) What was the initial fruit fly population in the experiment? 

_________flies

b) What was the population of the fruit fly colony on the 19th day?  (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

____________ flies

 

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