The bat population in a certain Midwestern county was 230,000 in 2009, and the observed doubling time for the population is 22 years. How do you find an exponential model?
1 Answer
Jan 12, 2017
Explanation:
let's say a quantity
so checking that:
- for
#t = tau# ,#Q = Q_o * 2# - for
#t = 2tau# ,#Q = Q_o * 2^2# - and so on
So for the bats we can say that:
If you want that in a calculus friendly form, you can instead start with the general idea of exponential growth/decay:
If we know that the amount doubles over a period
so
And our relationship is:
In that case, for the bats we say that: