On the first day of spring, an entire field of flowering trees blossoms. The population of locusts consuming these
flowers rapidly increases as the trees blossom.
The relationship between the elapsed time, t, in days, since the beginning of spring, and the total number of
locusts, L(t), is modeled by the following function:
t
L(t) = 750 - (1.85)^t
Complete the following sentence about the daily rate of change of the locust population.
Every day, the locust population
grows/shrinks
by a factor of______?