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- Special Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. An Epidemic In a city of half a million, there are initially 800 cases of a particularly virulent strain of flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta claims that the cumulative number of infections with this flu strain will increase by 40 per week if there are no limiting factors. Make a logistic model of the potential cumulative number of cases of flu as a function of weeks from initial outbreak, and determine how long it will be before 100, 000 people are infected.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. PTA Participation A school board has a plan to increase participation in the PTA. Currently only about 25 parents attend meetings. Suppose the school board plan results in logistic growth of attendance. The school board believes that its plan can eventually lead to an attendance level of 50 parents. In the absence of limiting factors, the school board believes that its plan can increase participation by 10 each month. Let m denote the number of months since the participation plan was put in place, and let P be the number of parents attending PTA meetings. a. What is the carrying capacity K for a logistic model of P versus m? b. Find the constant b for a logistic model. c. Find the r value for a logistic model. Round your answer to three decimal places. d. Find a logistic model for P versus m.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. Natural Gas Production The following table shows natural gas production N in trillions of cubic feet in the United states t years after 1940. t=yearssince1940 N=cubicft.intrilliions 0 3.75 10 8.48 20 15.09 30 23.79 40 21.87 50 21.52 60 24.15 a. Make a logistic model for N as a function of t. b. Graph the data and the logistic model. c. Which years production was farthest from the prediction of the logistic model? d. What does the logistic model predict for the amount of natural gas that will be produced in the long run? Note: In other contexts, this would be known as the carrying capacity..arrow_forward
- Special Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. Fluorescent Bulbs Compact fluorescent light bulbs save energy when compared with traditional incandescent bulbs. Our green energy campaign includes efforts to get local residents to exchange their incandescent bulbs fur fluorescent bulbs. Initially 200 households make the change. Market studies suggest that, in the absence of limiting factors, we could increase that number by 25 each month. In our target area, there are 250,000 households, which we take as the limiting value. Make a logistic model that gives the number of households converting to fluorescent bulbs after t months.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. African Bees There are 3600 commercial bee hives in a region threatened by African bees. Today African bees have taken over 50 hives. Experience in other areas shows that, in the absence of limiting factors, the African bees will increase the number of hives they take over by 30 each year. Make a logistic model that shows the number of hives taken over by African bees after t years, and determine how long it will be before 1800 hives are affected.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. Magazine Sales Our new magazine initially sells 300 copies per month. Research indicates that a vigorous advertising campaign could increase sales by 20 each month if our market were unlimited. But research also indicates that magazine sales in our area are unlikely to exceed 1200 per month. Make a logistic model of projected magazine sales.arrow_forward
- Special Rounding instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimals places unless otherwise indicated. Ebola Figure 5.14 shows a plot of the total number E of Ebola cases in West Africa reported to the centers for Diseases control and Prevention from April 1, 2014, through December 1, 2015. A logistic fit for these data is given by, E=27,841.421+134.65e0.646t. Where t is the time in months since April 1, 2014. In figure 5.15, we have added the graph of this model. a.Does Figure 5.14 show a continuing epidemic or a health crisis that is under control by December 2015? b.According to the model, what was the total number of cases when the disease was spreading at the fastest rate? Round your answer to the nearest whole number. c.Use the crossing- graphs method to determine when the disease was growing at the fastest rate. Round your answer, in months, to one decimal place.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless other-wise indicated. Mortality Versus Age. One study of morality versus age used the following model to give the probability P of death from measles It contracted at age t years: P=11+77.39e0.08t Here we assume that t is at least 2. a. What is the limiting value for this logistic function? Note: In other contexts, this would be known as the carrying capacity. b. Explain in practical terms the meaning of the limiting value you found in part a. c. At what age does the model predict that mortality due to measles is 70 ? That is a value of 0.7 for P.arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated. An Inverted Logistic Curve When the parameter r in the logistic formula is negative resulting in a positive power of e, the logistic curve has a different shape. For example, the following formula gives the approximate number of deaths due to tuberculosis as a fraction of all deaths in the United States t years after 1875: T=0.131+0.07e0.05t a. Make a graph of T versus t. Include dates up to 2000. b. What is the limiting value of T? Explain in practical terms what this limiting value means. c. Estimate when the fraction of deaths due to tuberculosis was decreasing most rapidly. Give your answer accurate to the nearest decade e.g., 1920.arrow_forward
- Special Rounding Instructions When you perform logistic regression, round the r value to three decimal places and the other parameters to two decimal places. Round all answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated. Multiple Myeloma is a cancer of the blood plasma cells. One study used a logistic function to model the number N, in billions, of cells in a myeloma tumor t days after the typical size at diagnosis: N=10001+999e0.0114t. a.Plot the graph of N versus t over the first 1200days. b.How long does it take the tumor to reach 100 times its size at the time of diagnosis?arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions For this exercise set, round all regression parameters to three decimal places, but round all other answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated. Choose the Model A car travels down a straight highway at a constant speed. Which is a better model for the distance traveled as a function of the time: linear or exponential?arrow_forwardSpecial Rounding Instructions For this exercise set, round all regression parameters to three decimal places, but round all other answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated. Traffic in the Lincoln TunnelCharacteristics of traffic flow include density D, which is the number of cars per mile, and average speed s in milesperhour.Traffic system engineers have investigated several methods for relating density to average speed. One study considered traffic flow in the north tube of the Lincoln Tunnel and fitted an exponential function to observed data. Those data are partially presented in the table below. Speed s Density D 32 34 25 53 20 74 17 88 13 102 a.Make an approximate exponential model of D as a function of s. b.Express, using functional notation, the density of traffic flow when the average speed is 28mileperhour, and then calculate that density. c.If average speed increases by 1mileperhour, what can be said about density?arrow_forward
- Functions and Change: A Modeling Approach to Coll...AlgebraISBN:9781337111348Author:Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, Alan NoellPublisher:Cengage Learning