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Logistic Growth Animal populations are not capable of unrestricted growth becomes of limited habitat and food supplies. Under such conditions the population follows a logistic growth model:
where c, d, and k are positive constants. For a certain fish population is a small pond
(a) How many fish were originally put in the pond?
(b) Find the population after 10, 20, and 30 years.
(c) Evaluate
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