You buy an island and stock it with 1000 ground squirrels. There is no emigration or immigration to the island and the squirrels die at a rate of 120 per year. What is the maximum number of new daughters that can be born each year on average and still have the population shrink

It is saturday morning and jeremy has discovered he has a leak coming from the water heater in his attic. since plumbers charge extra to come out on the weekends, jeremy is planning to use buckets to catch the dripping water. he places a bucket under the drip and steps outside to walk the dog. in half an hour the bucket is 1/5 of the way full. what is the rate at which the water is leaking per hour?

Weekly wages at a certain factory are normally distributed with a mean of $400 and a standard deviation of $50. find the probability that a worker selected at random makes between $450 and $500

The? half-life of a radioactive substance is 20 years. if you start with some amount of this? substance, what fraction will remain in 120 ? years