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Alice is an administrative assistant in the EECS department at MIT. Alice is in charge of running department events, including the distinguished lecture series. Alice is currently designing a poster for a talk by noted UI researcher, Bob, in 2 weeks. Alice wants people to see the poster and attend the event. In addition, Alice would like to know know how many people are planning to attend, in order to order food for the event. Currently estimating is in an inexact science because Alice does not know how popular the event will be.
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