mouse breeding problem
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Hello, I was wondering about a good/covenient way to write down and calculate a maths problem concerning mouse breeding.
Let's say that we have a single mouse pair, so 2 mice, a female and a male. Let us assume that they breed once every 4 weeks, and produce 10 offspring in each litter, both acceptable assumptions for a mouse. For convenience, let's say that each litter always has 5 females and 5 males, and that these breed together in pairs, so each generation effectively spawns 5 new pairs that then breed every 4 weeks and produce 5 new pairs every 4 weeks again and so on, growing exponentially.
We also assume that food, diseases, stillbirths, etc don't play a role, purely focusing on the mathematical representation of the growth rate.
If you leave this pair and their offspring alone for one year to breed, how many mice do you have after 1 year? Can you write this question down as a simple formula?
t. brainlet
Let's say that we have a single mouse pair, so 2 mice, a female and a male. Let us assume that they breed once every 4 weeks, and produce 10 offspring in each litter, both acceptable assumptions for a mouse. For convenience, let's say that each litter always has 5 females and 5 males, and that these breed together in pairs, so each generation effectively spawns 5 new pairs that then breed every 4 weeks and produce 5 new pairs every 4 weeks again and so on, growing exponentially.
We also assume that food, diseases, stillbirths, etc don't play a role, purely focusing on the mathematical representation of the growth rate.
If you leave this pair and their offspring alone for one year to breed, how many mice do you have after 1 year? Can you write this question down as a simple formula?
t. brainlet
