Solution

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Draw the even nullcline through and use the arrows from part (iii). Trajectories near spiral clockwise inward because, immediately to its right on the -axis, . At the stable and unstable eigendirections have slopes and . Their four separatrix branches divide the portrait; the only trajectory actually reaching at finite time is the constant one, while these branches approach it as . All remaining curves follow the sign field, with those in its basin spiralling into .

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