Question

A. imagine that you are one of the people who left the luncheon with a contagious disease and interacted with an average of 9 different people each day. how many people could potentially be infected in 7 days?
b. imagine the other remaining persons who received the contagious disease at the end of the luncheon interacted with an average of 6 different people per day. how many people could potentially be infected in 7 days by these others who left the luncheon?​

Answer 1

1.       In line with the test each person who came into interaction with the infected person will become infected also. With this information, the calculation would be: 9 people each day for 7days would be equivalent to 9 x 7 which equals 63 people.

2.       Here were 7 other people in the experiment if patient zero is left out. If each person intermingled with 6 different people every day in 7 days then the calculation would be: 7 people infected x 6 new people = 42 infected people each day

42 new people every day x 7 days = 294 infected persons.