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Coronavirus Math Problem

Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:44 pm
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:44 pm
10 people of varying ages stay together in one house for five days. Six days after five of the people leave the house, one of the five that left tests positive for coronavirus. List the odds of infection for each of the other nine people.

You don't have to show your work.
Posted by RummelTiger
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:44 pm to
About Wu-fiddy...
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:44 pm to
3.50 people assuming one is over the age of 60
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Posted by Booyow
Member since Mar 2010
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:44 pm to
350:1
Posted by Tiger Prawn
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:45 pm to
1 in 350
Posted by TH03
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:45 pm to
350%
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:45 pm to
What are the odds the first 350 replies in this thread contain the number "350"?
Posted by Booyow
Member since Mar 2010
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:46 pm to
Wuhandred percent
Posted by Havoc
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:46 pm to
The MOM is the doctor.
Posted by yatesdog38
in your head rent free
Member since Sep 2013
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:51 pm to
100 percent. It was me that had it and 9 women rated as an OT 10 in the group. I gave it to them all on the last day. They were begging for it on the first day but I made them make sammiches for me all week before I gave it to them because I'm a genius stud.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
71840 posts
Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:55 pm to
Haaah, this thread was fun.

But seriously, it's almost guaranteed everyone in that house has it right?
Posted by BRIllini07
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2015
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:58 pm to
Hmm...since one of them tested positive after leaving the assumption is then one of the five remaining had it (so 2 out of 10), including the one that left and the one that was remaining.

The generally listed attack rate (from probably aged sources now) is 10% so even if one of the 5 remaining people had it, there’s only a 50% chance that they would have transmitted it to any of the 5 people that left.

So, therefore, the estimate is that 2 of the 5 people remaining had CV in order to affect the 1 that left (so 3 out of 10 total).

Now, the person that got it upon leaving would have only showed up if they didn’t think CV was a possibility, meaning that the existing cases were asymptomatic. Which results in the following equation:

2(existing)+0.5(asymptomatic factor)+1 leaving = 3.50 cases of Coronavirus
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:01 pm to
quote:

You don't have to show your work.

WHEW!
Posted by HeadSlash
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:01 pm to
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Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
71840 posts
Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:12 pm to
Hmm, sort of legit?
Posted by IntenseKid
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2014
3415 posts
Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:37 pm to
Lost me at 3.50
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