Suppose a student is a carrier of the flu virus and returns to his isolated campus of 1000 students. If it is assumed that the ratio with which the virus spreads is proportional to the product of the number x of infected students by the number of uninfected students, determine the number of infected students after 6 days if it is also observed that after four days there are 50 sick students. Suppose also that no one leaves campus while the illness lasts

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Suppose a student is a carrier of the flu virus and returns to his isolated campus of 1000 students. If it is assumed that the ratio with which the virus spreads is proportional to the product of the number x of infected students by the number of uninfected students, determine the number of infected students after 6 days if it is also observed that after four days there are 50 sick students. Suppose also that no one leaves campus while the illness lasts

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