Solution

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For , , so solutions increase monotonically toward . For , , so they decrease monotonically toward . The solution remains at zero. Thus a phase-line sketch has arrows away from and toward ; a time-series sketch has all positive curves tending to the same horizontal asymptote . This is the cubic saturation population model.

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