SOLUTION: The logistic growth function below describes the number of people, f(t), who became ill with the flu t weeks after its initial outbreak in a particular community.
f(t)=200,000/1
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Question 1058723: The logistic growth function below describes the number of people, f(t), who became ill with the flu t weeks after its initial outbreak in a particular community.
f(t)=200,000/1+2000e^-t
(a) How many people became ill with the flu when the epidemic began? (round to the nearest whole number) Answer: 100
(b) How many people were ill by the end of the fourth week? (round to the nearest whole num-ber)
(c) What is the limiting size of the population that became ill? EXPLAIN in words please
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(a)
round off to
(b)
5,315 people were ill by the end of the 4th week
(c)
Let approach infinity
will approach zero, so
The limit is that all of them become ill
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