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Optimal Foraging Using data collected by zoologist Reto Zach, the work done by a crow to break open a whelk (large marine snail) can be estimated by the function
where
a. Find
b. One can show that the amount of work is minimized when
c. Interestingly, Zach observed the crows dropping the whelks from an average height of
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