Scientists collected fallen acorns that each housed a colony of the a…

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Scientists collected fallen acorns that each housed a colony of the ant species

P . o hi oe n s i s

and analyzed each colony's structure. For any of these colonies, if the colony has worker ants, the equation

y = 0.67 x + 2.6

where

20 \leq x \leq 110

, gives the predicted number of larvae,

y

, in the colony. If one of these colonies has

53

worker ants, which of the following is closest to the predicted number of larvae in the colony?