A Forrest has 800 pine trees but a disease is introduce that kills 1/4 of the pine trees in the forest every year.

Write a function that gives the number of pine trees remaining P (t) in the Forest t years after the disease is introduced

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Hanna Howell

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20 September, 08:33

A Forrest has 800 pine trees but a disease is introduce that kills 1/4 of the pine trees in the forest every year.

Write a function that gives the number of pine trees remaining P (t) in the Forest t years after the disease is introduced

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Jabari Cantrell · Answer 1

If there are 800 trees and 1/4 of them die to this disease.

Step-by-step explanation:

800=400x2=800/2=400 so 100/400 die so 200/800 die so in 4 years time the whole population will die.

Nathen · Answer 2

P (t) = 800 (3/4) ^t

A Forrest has 800 pine trees but a disease is introduce that kills 1/4 of the pine trees in the forest every year.Write a function that gives the number of pine trees remaining P (t) in the Forest t years after the disease is introduced

A Forrest has 800 pine trees but a disease is introduce that kills 1/4 of the pine trees in the forest every year.

Write a function that gives the number of pine trees remaining P (t) in the Forest t years after the disease is introduced