document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1183503>Question 1183503</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> . Public health records indicate that t weeks after the outbreak of a certain strain of influenza, approximately<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Q(t) = 20<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1 + 19 e−1.2t<BR>\n" );
document.write( "thousand people had caught the disease.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(a) How many people had the disease when it broke out? How many had it 2 weeks later?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(b) At what time does the rate of infection begin to decline?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(c) If the trend continues, approximately how many people will eventually contract the disease? 7,343 people had<BR>\n" );
document.write( "contracted the disease by the second week. (b) = t=2.454, so the epidemic begins to fade about 2.5 weeks after<BR>\n" );
document.write( "it starts. (c) Q(t) approaches 20 as t increases without bound, it follows that approximately 20,000 people will<BR>\n" );
document.write( "eventually contract the disease.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Your <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large Q(t)\"> function makes no sense as written.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Did you mean <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large Q(t)\ =\ 20\(1\,+\,19e^{-1.2t}\)\ \ \">?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I > Ø<BR>\n" );
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