1. A news article states the weekly number of people infected by a particular virus is decreasing. In other words, people are still getting sick, but there are less new infections at the end of each weekly count. The news today is the number of reported new cases decreased by 13% from last week which means 56 people became infected over the last 7 days.

(Answer from a previous question)

The number of new cases decreased by 13%.

x-13% of x=56

87% of x=56

87x/100 =56

x=5600/87 = 64 people

Cases reported for Week 1: 64

Cases reported for Week 2: 56 (minus 8 cases = 13%)

Cases reported for Week 3: 48 (minus 8 cases = 13%)

Question: What is the average daily decrease in people getting infected?

(Please verify my answer is correct)

Based on the above answer: there are 8 less people getting infected each week.

8 infected/7 days = 1.14

This means 1 less person is getting infected each day.