A physical-fitness center has found that, from those members who perform high-impact exercising on one visit, 20% will do the same on the next visit, while on those who perform low-impact exercising on one visit, 90% will do the same on the next visit. On the last visit, suppose 30% of members did high-impact exercising.

1. After two more visits, the percentage of members performing high-impact exercising will be:

2. The steady state percentage of members performing high-impact exercising will be:

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To answer these questions we can use a Markov chain model to represent the transitions between highimpact and lowimpact exercising on consecutive visi... View the full answer