Question

A population of ants is growing at a rate of 10% per month.what is the growth factor

Answer 1

10% +100% = 110% or just multiply by 1.10 and that will give you the answer

Answer 2

Let "p" represent the starting population of ants. It is given that the population of ants is growing at a rate of 10% per month. Let $p_e$ represent the population of ants at the end of the month. Therefore, at the end of the month, the population of ants will be given as:

$p_e=p+\frac{10}{100}p=p+0.1p=1.1p$

Therefore, the monthly growth factor of the ant population is 1.1.