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Beak length The length of the culmen (the upper ridge of a bird’s bill) of a t-week-old Indian spotted owlet is modeled by the function
- a. Find L′(1) and interpret the meaning of this value.
- b. Use a graph of L'(t) to describe how the culmen grows over the first 5 weeks of life.
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