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Biologists stocked a lake with 400 fish and estimated the carrying capacity (the maximal population for the fish of that species in that lake) to be 7000 . The number of fish doubled in the first year.

dP/dt = rP(1- p/K)

find an expression for the size of the population after t years by determining constant r.

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