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Whooping Cranes Based on data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the population of whooping cranes in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo National Park can be approximated by a logistic function with
a. Find the growth function
b. Find the initial population
Find the population and rate of growth in the following years.
c. 1945 | d. 1985 | e. 2005 |
f. What happens to the rate of growth over time?
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