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p(1) = 1,000
p(n) = 1.05 * p(n - 1)

This model predicts the population will exceed the capacity (5,000) of the habitat when n >= 34.

 

p(1) = 1,000
p(n) = 1.01 * p(n - 1)

This model predicts the population will exceed the capacity (5,000) of the habitat when n >= 163.


p(1) = 1,000
p(n) = 0.95 * p(n - 1)

This model predicts that the species will become "endangered" when n >= 60.



p(1) = 1,000
p(n) = 0.99 * p(n - 1)

This model predicts that the species will become "endangered" when n >= 298.

Copyright c 1995 by PWS Publishing Company, a division of International Thomson Publishing Inc. Comments to Frank Wattenberg, Department of Mathematics, Carroll College, Helena, MT 59625.