Posted on 03/01/2020 6:05:26 PM PST by cba123
According to the latest data published by the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Monday, the number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 4212, with 476 more cases confirmed.
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They sa “Little Rocket Man” is under the weather, we can only hope he has come face to face with that pesky virus.
We’ll never know the true death rate. But your word problem example is wrong too. You concentrate on the premise of 100% mortality rate of Racin. What you need to add to your equation is make 80% of those injections water. Do your math on two out of ten and have the number of victims grow. Next, for people under 65 inject less than one in a hundred.
Scientist are starting to realize that around 80% or more coronavirus victims never even know they are sick. And the death rate for victims under 65 a lot of flu strains are worse.
I wasnt trying to create a word problem with extra unknowns. I was trying to illustrate how the basic premise of the formula didnt give you the answer you thought you were calculating.
Yes, once you get the basic formula right there will be other modifiers, but you cant start with the wrong equation and get the right answer except by coincidence.
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