A disease is spreading through the country. Let x be the number of people infected. Let the constant S be the number of people susceptible to infection. The infection rate dx is dt proportional to the product of already infected people, x, and the number of susceptible but uninfected people, S − x. a) Write down the differential equation. b) Supposing x(0) > 0, that is, some people are infected at time t ? 0, what is lim x(t). t→∞ c) Does the solution to part b) agree with your intuition? Why or why not?

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A disease is spreading through the country. Let x be the number of people infected. Let the constant S be the number of people susceptible to infection. The infection rate dx is

dt proportional to the product of already infected people, x, and the number of susceptible but uninfected

people, S − x.

a) Write down the differential equation.

b) Supposing x(0) > 0, that is, some people are infected at time t ? 0, what is lim x(t). t→∞

c) Does the solution to part b) agree with your intuition? Why or why not?

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Given that,

dxdtαxS-x

So, the given equation becomes,

dxdt=kxS-x

For some constant K.

dxxS-x=kdt....1

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