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Rewrite the statement in mathematical notation. (Let n be the number of cases of Bangkok flu and t be time.) There are presently 450 cases of Bangkok flu, and the number is growing by 10 new cases every month.

dn/dt=

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Let us say that t is number of months and n is the number of cases of Bangkok flu, therefore the equation we can create here is:

dn / dt = 10 t + 450

where 10 represents the slope and 450 represents the y-intercept