Q. Let be the number of people in a village at time . Assume that the rate of change of the population is proportional to the number of people in the village at any time and further assume that the population never increases in time. Then the population of the village at any fixed time is given by

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Solution:

According to the question,

Separating the variables, we get = kdt
Integrating both sides, we get
log y = k t + M (as y cannot be -ve)

y where C = e
Constant k cannot be positive because the population never increases in time. And another constant C cannot be negative because of e > 0 always.
Hence y = Ce, for some constants C 0 and k 0.