On the first day of spring, and entire Field of flowering trees blossoms. The population of locusts consuming these flowers rapidly increase as the trees blossom. The relationship between the elapsed time, t, in days, since beginning of spring and the total number of locusts L(t) is modeled by the following function
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/sinks by the factor of .