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Ju Wenjun is an ecologist who studies the change in the tiger population of Siberia over time.

The relationship between the elapsed time ttt, in years, since Ju Wenjun started studying the population, and the number of tigers, N(t)N(t)N, left parenthesis, t, right parenthesis, is modeled by the following function:
N(t)=650โ‹…(1625)t
Complete the following sentence about the rate of change in the tiger population.
Round your answer to two decimal places.
The number of tigers decays by a factor of \dfrac45
5
4
โ€‹
start fraction, 4, divided by, 5, end fraction every
years.

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Answer:

The number of tigers decays by a factor of 4/5 every 0.5 years.

Explanation:

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Answer: every 0.5 years

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