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Flea Beetles A study of flea beetles found that the change in the rate of flea beetles moving in and out of a patch of beetles could be described by the differential equation
where N is the number of beetles in a patch, m is the rate at which beetles move out of the patch, and i is the rate at which they move in. Source: Ecological Monographs.
a. Solve the differential equation above with the initial condition
b. After the researchers cleared a patch of beetles, so that
c. The researchers estimated m using the equation
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