From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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Woodstock

Woodstock

From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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Woodstock

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- [Instructor] The Woodstock Music and Art Festival, which actually took place in Bethel, New York not Woodstock, New York, was billed as three days of peace and music in August 1969. Let's take a statistical look at this massive and historic music event. The event was expected to attract about 200,000 people. About 186,000 advanced tickets were sold for about $18 each. But demand was far greater than anticipated and hundreds of thousands more showed up and entered without paying. Estimates on attendance stretch from 400,000 to half a million people. Bethel's normal 1970 population was about 2,800, but if 400,000 attended the festival, based on census numbers, Woodstock would have had the 44th largest population in 2010, ahead of Miami. And if 500,000 attended, for those three days little Bethel, it would have been the second most populated city in the state of New York ahead of Buffalo. And based on 2010 census numbers it would have been the 36th largest U.S. city, ahead of Atlanta…

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