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I have already done part a. I don't understand part b. Everything I have is here. I have no more information. What you see is
I have already done part a. I don't understand part b. Everything I have is here. I have no more information. What you see is it. (I'm not trying to be rude, but I usually get a lot of people saying they need more information or clarification when I do not have it) I'm sorry to repaste this I didn't realize some parts changed when I copied.
In early May 2000 a computer virus known as the ILOVEYOU worm (aka the Love Bug)
spread through Windows computers all over the world, by exploiting a bug in Microsoft Outlook email.
The worm would overwrite and hide random files on the victim's computer before copying and sending
itself to every contact in the victim's address book.
By May 5th an estimated 10 million computers had already been infected, and by May 14th that
number had risen to 50 million. Let P(t) = number of infected computers (in millions) at time t days
since May 5th.
a) Using the Malthusian model for population, predict the day when the number of infected computers
would exceed 250 million without intervention.
b) In 2000 there were an estimated 500 million Windows computers in the world in total. Suppose
this implies that P = 500 is the limiting value for P(t) (as t ).
Now use the Logistics model to predict when the number of infected computers in the world would
exceed 250 million without intervention, and compare to the Malthusian model.
Hint: since you are given P , you need only to determine the constants a and C. You can
determine a from P and C by solving P(9) = 50 (the previously given data point) for a.
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