Solution

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Eliminate the juvenile variable from the stage-structured population model. Since ,
The characteristic polynomial of this linear recurrence is
so . The initial conditions give and , hence and . Therefore
The alternating term records the initial imbalance between life stages; the growing term dominates eventually.

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