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Biomedical: Contagion If an epidemic spreads through a town at a rate that is proportion...

Biomedical: Contagion If an epidemic spreads through a town at a rate that is proportional to the number of infected people and to the number of uninfected people, then the rate is R(x) = cx( p - x), where x is the number of infected people and c and p (the population) are positive constants. Show that the rate R(x) is greatest when half of the population is infected.

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 3.4