Answer:
1.4071
Step-by-step explanation:
The relationship between the elapsed time, t in days, since an ocean sunfish is born, and its mass is given by:
[tex]M_{day}(t)=3.5(1.05)^t[/tex]
This function represents an exponential growth increasing as the number of days increases since (3.5 > 1), it means that at day 0 , the mass of the sunfish is 3.5 milligrams and every day, its mass increases by a factor of 1.05.
Since the mass of the sunfish increases by [tex]1.05^t[/tex], therefore the mass of the sunfish increases every one week (that is 7 days) by a factor of [tex]1.05^{7} = 1.4071[/tex]