Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

question 15

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question.
The figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A-D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface.

In which of the following human mycoses should one expect to find a growth pattern most similar to that of the mycelium that produced the fairy ring?

• A) skin mycoses
• B) coccidiomycosis (lung infection)
• C) systemic (bloodborne) Candida infection
• D) infection of lymphatic vessels

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Definitions:

M/M/1

A queueing model notation representing a system with a single server, where arrivals follow a Poisson process, and service times are exponentially distributed.

Utilization

The ratio of the time that a resource is actually used to the time it is available for use, often measured to assess efficiency in operations.

μ

A symbol often used to represent the mean or average value of a set of numbers in statistics.