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GROWTH OF FRUIT FLIES On the basis of data collected during an experiment, a biologist found that the number of fruit flies (Drosophila) with a limited food supply could be approximated by the logistic model
where t denotes the number of days since the beginning of the experiment. Find the average number of fruit flies in the colony in the First 10 days of the experiment and in the first 20 days.
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