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Use the following to answer questions :
At low densities and in the absence of any other beetle species,the population of a strain of the flour beetle called Tribolium castaneum grows at a per capita rate of 0.25 per week.In controlled lab conditions,this growth rate is reduced by 0.01 for every 100 individuals.The addition of a related beetle,Tribolium freemani,further reduces the per capita growth rate of T.castaneum by 0.03 for every 100 T.freemani individuals.
-If all of the T.freemani were removed and there were just 1,000 T.castaneum individuals,what would be the weekly per capita growth rate of the T.castaneum population?

• A) 0.01
• B) 0.03
• C) 0.11
• D) 0.15
• E) 0.25

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