Cuban treefrogs are an invasive species that prey on other f…
Cuban treefrogs are an invasive species that prey on other frogs, snakes, and lizards native to Florida. UF researchers estimate that in one portion of the county, there were initially 1500 Cuban treefrogs when the research study began in 2020. They estimate that 4 years later, the Cuban treefrog population grew exponentially to 2700 Cuban treefrogs in the same region. Round your answers to two decimal places. a) Use this information to create an exponential function in the form for the population of the Cuban treefrogs in this region, where represents the population and is the number of years since 2020. b) After how many years would the UF researchers expect the population to reach 12,000 in the same region? (If you were unable to find the function in part a, you may use the function to solve this problem.)