Homework Help: algebra

Posted by joyce on Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 9:03pm.

A contagious disease is infecting residents of a town of 7,300 residents. The number of
residents infected t days after the disease has begun is given by the function
f(t)= 7300/1+500e-0.5t
How many residents are infected with the disease after 6 days?

algebra - Damon, Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 9:11pm
Maybe you mean

f = 7300/ (1+500e^-.5t ) ????

at t = 0 then
f = 7300/ (501) = 14.67

at t = 6
f = 7300 / (1 + 500*.05) = 282
algebra - joyce, Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 9:16pm
I didn't think 0.5t was suppose to be treated as a square root; probably why I was having difficulty. Thanks

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