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Tropical Fish The total number of fish will depend on the size of a pond or aquarium. At the Reading Mandarin Restaurant a total of 90 tropical fish were placed in an aquarium. For the next 12 months the total number of fish could be predicted by the equation
where P is the number of fish and x is the number of months since the fish were placed in the aquarium.
One year after the fish are first placed in me aquarium, what is me total
number of fish? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
Using your answers for exercises 51 to 54, graph the function
P(a).
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