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Tropical Fish The total number of fish will depend on the size of a pond or aquarium. At the Reading Mandarin Restaurant a total of 90 tropical fish were placed in an aquarium. For the next 12 months the total number of fish could be predicted by the equation
where P is the number of fish and x is the number of months since the fish were placed in the aquarium.
Using your answers for exercises 51to 54 graph the function P(x).
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