The new R-naught number

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There's a number used to quantify how fast a virus will spread, the R-naught number.  As the coronavirus spread though out the world, we saw how the threat of infection was measured and understood the mathematics of judging how a population would be affected.

Now we're plagued with the Delta variant of the coronavirus.  What was the original virus' R-naught number and what has it become?

The activity: New-R-naught-number.pdf

CCSS: 6.EE, 7.EE, 8.EE, 8.F, HSF.IF, HSF.LE, MP2, MP4, MP7, MP8

For members we have an editable Word docx and solutions.

New-R-naught-number.docx    New-R-naught-number-solution.pdf

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