A declining species and an increasing logistic species
On a mangrove swamp, scientists are investigating the population of mudskippers and crabs. Initially, there are 800 mudskippers and 800 crabs on the mangrove swamp. At time years, the number of mudskippers and crabs are respectively.
(a) For the mudskippers, the scientists discovers that every year, the growth rate is 0.4% of the population size and the death rate is 5 mudskippers per year.
(i) Write down a differential equation relating . mark
(ii) Solve the differential equation in part (i) and determine what happens to the mudskipper population in the future. marks
(b) For the crabs, the scientists propose that are related by the differential equation .
(i) Find the number of crabs in the mangrove swamp when the rate of change of is a maximum. marks
(ii) Find in terms of . Sketch a graph of against . marks
[2021/TJC/Prelim/I/10]
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