SOLUTION: Diseases tend to spread according to the exponential growth model. In the early days of AIDS, the growth factor (i.e. common ratio; growth multiplier) was around 2.0. In 1983, abou

Question 1175154: Diseases tend to spread according to the exponential growth model. In the early days of AIDS, the growth factor (i.e. common ratio; growth multiplier) was around 2.0. In 1983, about 1700 people in the U.S. died of AIDS. If the trend had continued unchecked, how many people would of died of AIDS in 2003?

Answer by ikleyn(52832) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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     = 1,782,579,200  (which is, probably, unrealistically big number).

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