Today in Precalculus

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Today in Precalculus

• Go over homework
• Notes Logistic Functions (need your calculator)
• Homework

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Logistic Functions

• When exponential growth approaches a limit
  (sometimes called the maximum sustainable
  population)
• a, c, k are positive
• c is the limit to growth or maximum
  sustainable population

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Logistic Functions
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Logistic Functions
What is the maximum sustainable
population? 12,579,000 What was the population
in 1800? 419,296 What was the population
in 1880? 4,393,877 When did the
population equal 6 million? t95.4 so
during 1895
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Homework

• Pg 298 45,46,56