Homework Help: Math

Posted by carly on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 6:20pm.

A female moth lays nearly 150 eggs. In on year there may live up to five generations. Each larva eats about 20mg of wool. Assume that 2/3 of the eggs die and that 50% of the remaining moths are females. Estimate the amount of wool that may be destroyed b the descendants of one female within a year. (The first female belongs to the first generation)

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