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A biologist is conducting an experiment that involves a colony of fruit flies. (Biologists frequently study fruit flies. (Biologists frequently study fruit flies because their short life span allows the experimenters to easily study several generations). One day, there were
a. Develop the mathematical model that represents the population of flies.
b. Use the model to predict the population after one week.
c. Use the model to predict when the population will be double its initial size.
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