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Coughs and Sneezes Coursework Introduction At the beginning of a term it is noticed that a large number of University Students who live in a particular hall of residence have a cold. Recording the numbers of students suffering from colds every five days monitors the way in which the cold spreads. The results are given in the table below where T represents the number of days after monitoring began and S represents the number of students who have a cold. T 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 S 25 31 38 43 47 47 45 41 36 30 24 19 14 11 8 In the data set above, there are two 5-day measurements, which have the maximum for the number of students with a cold. Because the number of students with a cold was not measured inbetween 20 and 25 days, I will make the assumption that at 23 days is the maximum with 47 students with a cold because otherwise it makes the modelling difficult because there are two days with the same cases of colds....

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