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Getting Started: Forest and Trees

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Getting Started: Forest and Trees Getting Started is a fast-paced introduction. Read the chapter for details. A small forest contains 4000 trees. The new forestry plan is that each year 20% of the trees will be harvested and 1000 new trees will be planted. Will the forest disappear? Does it stabilize at a certain number of trees? If so, what is that number? 1. Press z. Press to select Seq MODE. Press † ~ Í to select Dot MODE. 2. Press o. Each year the number of trees is 80 percent of what was there at the end of the prior year. Press  ~ 2 (to select iPart, because the company will not harvest part of a tree) £ .8 y ãUn-1ä (2nd function of ¬) ¤ to define the number of trees after each harvest. Press à 1000 to define the replacement trees. 3. Press p. Press † to move to UnStart. Press 4000 Í to define the number of trees at the beginning of the program. 4. Press 50 Í to set nMax=50 to plot the size of the forest over 50 years. 5. Set the other WINDOW variables: Xmin=0 Xmax=50 Xscl=10 Ymin=0 Ymax=6000 Yscl=1000 6. Press r. Tracing begins at nMin (before the forestry program began). Press ~ to trace the values year-by-year. The values for n (year) and Un (trees) are displayed at the bottom of the screen. How many years does it take to stabilize the size of the forest? 6-2 Sequence Graphing

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6-2
Sequence Graphing
Getting Started: Forest and Trees
Getting Started is a fast-paced introduction. Read the chapter for details.
A small forest contains 4000 trees. The new forestry plan is that each year 20% of
the trees will be harvested and 1000 new trees will be planted. Will the forest
disappear? Does it stabilize at a certain number of trees? If so, what is that
number?
1.
Press
z
. Press
~
~
~
Í
to
select
Seq
MODE
. Press
~
Í
to select
Dot
MODE
.
2.
Press
o
. Each year the number of trees is 80
percent of what was there at the end of the prior
year. Press
±
~
2
(to select
iPart
, because
the company will not harvest part of a tree)
£
.8
y
ã
U
n-1
ä
(
2nd
function of
¬
)
¤
to define the
number of trees after each harvest. Press
Ã
1000
to define the replacement trees.
3.
Press
p
. Press
to move to
U
n
Start
.
Press
4000
Í
to define the number of trees
at the beginning of the program.
4.
Press
50
Í
to set
n
Max=50
to plot
the size of the forest over 50 years.
5.
Set the other
WINDOW
variables:
Xmin=0
Ymin=0
Xmax=50
Ymax=6000
Xscl=10
Yscl=1000
6.
Press
r
. Tracing begins at
n
Min
(before the
forestry program began). Press
~
to trace the
values year-by-year. The values for
n
(year) and
U
n
(trees) are displayed at the bottom of the
screen. How many years does it take to stabilize
the size of the forest?