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Hey,

im justy wondering how to do this question, its:
In a flock of 1000 chickens, the number P infected with a disease at time t years is given by (ill write the equation using latex) where c is a constant.
Show that eventually all of the chickens will be infected.
 

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Let t approach infinity. You get the ce part approaching zero.
 

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the other 2 parts to that Q are :

-Suppose that when time t = 0, exactly one chicken was infected. After how many days will
500 chickens be infected?

-Show that dP/dt =P(1000-P)

incase u were interested.
 

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Yer i knew how to do that part so i didnt bother posting it. Thanks for the help people for the first bit.
 

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