Pow 10 Growth Of Rats

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Growth of Rat Populations Two rats, one male and one female, had scampered on board a ship that was anchored at a local dock. The ship set sail across the ocean. When it anchored at a deserted island in late December, the two rats abandoned the ship to make their home on the Island. I will have to figure out how much is left. Each litter has six rats. The original female gives birth to six young o...n January 1, and produces another litter of six 40days later and every 40 days thereafter. Each female in the island first liter 120 days after her birth, then produce new litter in 40 days. I need to find out what the number of rats will be there on January 1. The first time I looked at this problem it looks hard. I didn’t know how to start it. My partner said to make tree chart. I got stuck on the tree chart. I tried it and it would take a long time plus I wouldn’t know where to start. Second I started to experiment so I made a graph. I don’t know how I made it but I labeled one axis by counting by forty, 1, 40, 80,120,160,200,240,280, 320, and 360. The other axis was one threw 10. Some stuff that I graphed was original mothers, mother’s grandchildren, great grand children, and great grand children. For each line I made a table. Added them up and got a final answer of 1778. My solution is 1778. All of my friends have different answers. I can prove it’s my answer by adding all of my results up. This POW was very hard. I tried my best even know the answer wrong. I took a lot of time it was really hard. Time. I experimented a lot with all my work. By completing this Pow, I learned a lot of thing. First I learned to try thing and to experiment. I think I should get a B I explained well but was kind of confused, so my sister helped me with a lot of
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