I don't remember well, but I was doing a biology problem using some Lotka-Volterra equation.
I had $\displaystyle\frac{dx}{dt}=x-xy$ and $\displaystyle\frac{dy}{dt}=xy-y$.
$y(0)=800$, $x(0)=600$, compute $y(5)$
But how do I solve? Do I just take the derivative of $\displaystyle\frac{dx}{dt}$ to get $\displaystyle\frac{d^2x}{dt^2}=2-3y-3x(4xy-y)$?
To get $\displaystyle \frac{d^2x}{dt^2}=2-3y+3xy-12x^2y$?
But I don't even know where and or how to solve...
I know Laplace Transform and separation methods.