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1-001d-HotelPopulationDecay-ModelingScenario

Author(s): Dina Yagodich

Keywords: simulation logistic exponential decay fitting

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Resource Image You will be modeling the following situation: 100 people are in a hotel. Each day, each person has a random chance of 50% of leaving the hotel. No new people enter the hotel. Before you run the simulation in MATLAB, answer some questions.

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Before you run the simulation in MATLAB, answer the following questions in your report:

  • How many people do you think will be left if you ran this experiment an infinite number of times?  Call this the Steady State solution. 
  • How many days do you think it will take to get to the steady state solution?

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Author(s): Dina Yagodich

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