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Chapter 9 Problem 24

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Barbara weighs 60 kg and is on a diet of 1600 calories per day, of which 850 are used automatically by basal metabolism. She spends about 15 calkgday times her weight doing exercise. If 1 kg of fat contains 10,000 cal and we assume that the storage of calories in the form of fat is efficient, formulate a differential equation and solve it to find her weight as a function of time. Does her weight ultimately approach an equilibrium weight?

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Title Single Variable Calculus 7 
Author James W Nilsson
ISBN 9780538497831

Solution: Barbara weighs 60 kg and is on a diet of 1600

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