Question

A wooded area in a state park has a mixture of different types of trees. There are 800 pine trees and 50 oak trees. The number of pine trees is decreasing at a rate of 5% per year. The number of oak trees is increasing at a rate of 15% per year. If these trends continue:
Write two functions to model this situation and graph those two functions on the same coordinate grid.
Pine Tree Function Oak Tree Function
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During what year in the future will the park have approximately the same number of pine and maple trees? How many of each type of tree will there be at that time?

Answer 1

can anyone help me ?

Answer 2

pine tree function=800-.05x oak tree function=50+.15x they will have the same number in 3750 years about 612 trees each. the actual number is 612.5

Answer 3

omg thanks ! :) <3

Answer 4

hahaha yeah np