Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 9 - Section 9.4 - Models for Population Growth - 9.4 Exercises - Page 619: 15

Answer

$P_L$ is a reasonable accurate model while $P_E$ is not a reasonable accurate model

Work Step by Step

Let suppose choose $t=0$ to correspond to the $1960$ and subract $94000$ from each population figures. Use the calculator to find the model and $94000$ to get the following function, $P_E(t)=1909.7761(.0796)^t+ 94000$ $P_L(t)=\frac{33086.4394}{1+12.3428e^{-1.1657t}}+94000$ so, $P_L$ is a reasonable accurate model while $P_E$ is not a reasonable accurate model
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