On the first day of spring, an entire field of flowering trees blossoms. The population of locusts consuming these
flowers rapidly increases as the trees blossom.
The relationship between the elapsed time, t, in days, since the beginning of spring, and the total number of
locusts, L(t), is modeled by the following function:
t
L(t) = 750 - (1.85)^t
Complete the following sentence about the daily rate of change of the locust population.
Every day, the locust population
grows/shrinks
by a factor of?

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.