009A Sample Midterm 1, Problem 2

Suppose the size of a population at time  $t$  is given by

$N(t)={\frac {1000t}{5+t}},~t\geq 0.$

(a) Determine the size of the population as  $t\rightarrow \infty .$  We call this the limiting population size.

(b) Show that at time  Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle t=5,}   the size of the population is half its limiting size.

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