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A news item is spreading by word of mouth through a population of size 12,000 people. After t days, the number of people (in thousands) who have heard the news is given by the following equation. y=f(t)=(12)/(1+150 e^(-0.48 t)) (a) Approximately how many thousand people have heard the news after 8 days? (Give your answer correct to at least three decimal places.) thousand people

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          A news item is spreading by word of mouth through a population of size 12,000 people. After t days, the number of people (in thousands) who have heard the news is given by the following equation.
y=f(t)=(12)/(1+150 e^(-0.48 t))
(a) Approximately how many thousand people have heard the news after 8 days? (Give your answer correct to at least three decimal places.)
 thousand people

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Calculus: Early Transcendentals

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The function that describes the number of people (in thousands) who have heard the news after \( t \) days is: \[ y = f(t) = \frac{12}{1 + 150 e^{-0.48 t}} \] Show more…

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A news item is spreading by word of mouth through a population of size 12,000 people. After t days, the number of people (in thousands) who have heard the news is given by the following equation. y=f(t)=(12)/(1+150 e^(-0.48 t)) (a) Approximately how many thousand people have heard the news after 8 days? (Give your answer correct to at least three decimal places.) thousand people