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Cutlassfish The cutlassfish is one of the most important resource of the commercial marine fishing industry in China. Researchers have developed a von Bertalanffy growth model that uses the age of a certain species of cutlassfish to estimate length such that
where
a. What happens to the length of the average cutlassfish of this species over time?
b. Determine the age of a fish that has grown to 95% of its maximum length.
c. Find
d. Graph the function on
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