The spread of a non-fatal disease through a population of


Question: The spread of a non-fatal disease through a population of fixed size M can be modeled as follows. The rate that healthy people are infected, in people per day, is proportional to the product of the numbers of healthy and infected people. The constant of proportionality is 0.01/M. The rate of recovery, in people per day, is 0.009 times the number of people infected. Construct a differential equation that models the spread of the disease. Assuming that initially only a small number of people are infected, plot a graph of the number of infected people against time. What fraction of the population is infected in the long run?

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