Question

Psychologists often study how fast a task is learned. In a study of the rate at which animals learn a task, hamsters were sent through a certain maze again and again, and the length of time it took them from the entrance to the exit was recorded. It was found that the time to make this trip on the nth trial was approximately T(n) = 4 + 20/n minutes.

A. Approximately how long did the hamster take to make the trip on the first trial? The fifth trial? The tenth?

B. Which values of n make sense in the experiment?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

wow how did you do that!!!!

Answer 3

code :) i can teach you if you want