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.

a. If the growth is linear, how many new cases of infections will be reported one week from today? Show your work and explain your assumptions and process.

(please verify if my answer is correct).

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%)