[jcheverton]

Calculate the number of offspring - male (tom) and female (queen) - from one unsprayed female in 10 years - breaking your answer into years. Year 1 is the female's birth year, thus there is only 1 animal – her – and she lives for 10 years. We know of course that physiologically there has to be a male, but calculate just the female and her offspring for this assignment. The original female lives 10 years and starts reproducing in Year 2 (though many queens do have their first litter before they are year of age), has two litters per year, and in each litter there are two males and two females. The female kittens begin reproducing at one year of age with the same proportion of male/female as the original female and live for the same lifespan of 10 years (5.0 points). Show your calculations

Calculate the number of offspring - male (tom) and female (queen) - from one unsprayed female in 10 years - breaking your answer into years. Year 1 is the female's birth year, thus there is only 1 animal – her – and she lives for 10 years. We know of course that physiologically there has to be a male, but calculate just the female and her offspring for this assignment. The original female lives 10 years and starts reproducing in Year 2 (though many queens do have their first litter before they are year of age), has two litters per year, and in each litter there are two males and two females. The female kittens begin reproducing at one year of age with the same proportion of male/female as the original female and live for the same lifespan of 10 years (5.0 points). Show your calculations

[smoothy]

42...





This is your homework assignment , site rules require you show us your work and your answer before we can help. We do not do your work so you have more videogame time.

[Wondergirl]

Unspayed, not unsprayed

[teacherjenn4]

If they were spayed and neutered, the answer is zero, unless you count the male and female.

[smoothy]

Might have been near a family of Skunks so they might be the ones that weren't sprayed.

[joypulv]

I do know that cats often go into first heat (and get pregnant) far, far earlier than 2 years, or even 1. And often have more than 2 litters a year. Throw a male into the equation and you get over 400,000 cats in 7 years. Of course in feral cats, this number is greatly reduced by starvation and other horrible ways to die.


I don't care about your homework. But since you have to break it down into years, start drawing a diagram. Make it tiny because you will run out of paper.
You are supposed to figure out the formula. A diagram might help you do that.