Some Populations of Animals Exhibit Periodic Behavior Over Time

question 50

Multiple Choice

Some populations of animals exhibit periodic behavior over time. During the 1960s and 1970s, two scientists carefully studied the population of the Carabid beetle in a region of the Netherlands. Assume that the table below shows the results from their study. Without the aid of technology, choose the sine model which is the most reasonable fit to data, where x is the number of years since 1964.

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