Consider another example of a living organism; with birth rates b₁ = 0.3, b₂ = 0.3, b₃ = 0.3, b₄ = 0.1 and death rates d₁ = 0.1, d₂ = 0.2, d₃ = 0.5, d₄ = 0.9.
a. What is the largest eigenvalue of the matrix?