Math 161 Calculus I

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You should answer these questions as you read the text.

Section 4.2

1. Why is a differential equation needed to describe the growth of money in the bank?
2. Which economist in Example 1 predicts bigger deficits? Explain the difference.
3. Why can't the DE in Theorem 1 model any physical phenomenon for very long?
4. Explain the new term in the logistic DE that isn't in the DE in Theorem 1. What's a variable? What's constant?
5. Find a solution to the Initial Value Problem y' = 3y and y(0) = 30 and check your answer by differentiation.