Thursday, April 10, 2008

Finding growth rate

I was wondering can someone explain to me how you find the growth rate when it gives you the differential equation (which models the growth)? Or do you remember the section that we learned this?

I'm sorta referring to problem #18 in second multiple choice set if you don't understand my question.

Thank you for any help!

3 comments:

MariaCJen said...

I found the second derivative and i set it equal to zero and found that y=5. Then i found that it is a maximum y=5 so i plugged 5 into the differential equation and i multiplied it by 100 because it is giving you the number of rabbits in hundreds. Rujuta helped me on this problem so if you want a clarification you can ask her! =)

Anonymous said...

OH MY. Thanks so much, Maria! I was stumped on that for the longest time.

Jennifer Oh said...

Thanks! I was having a hard time on that problem too.