Question

The tojolobal Mayan Indian community in Southern Mexico has available a fixed amount of land. The proportion, P, of land in use for farming t years after 1935 is modeled with the logistic function:

P= 1/1+3e^-0.0275t

a) What proportion of land was used in farming in 1935? Enter the exact answer.

b) What is the long prediction of this model? Enter the exact answer.

c) When was half of the land used for farming?
Round your answer to the nearest year.

d) When is the proportion of land used for farming increasing the most rapidly? Round your answer to the nearest year.

Answer 1

P= 1/1+3e^-0.0275t

Answer 2

Is there something wrong with the equation...?

P = \[\frac{ 1 }{ 1+3e ^{-0.0275t} }\]

Answer 3

I found b) to be 1 and c) to be 1975

I still need help with a) and d)