Predator-Prey Problems

Applications of Systems of Differential Equations

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Your Show command should have resulted in the following:

Show[rabfoxplot1,rabfoxplot2,rabfoxplot3,
rabfoxplot4,rabfoxplot5,rabfoxplot6,
PlotRange->All]

Phase Plot

Notice the form of each of these orbits. The point (100, 200) is called an equilibrium point for the model. (The reason for this is quite obvious, right?) The plot itself is often called a phase-plane diagram.

Now that you have a picture of all of the solutions that you've found displayed simultaneously consider what the implications of the graph are with regard to the populations of the two species.

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