Answer to Question #45608 in Statistics and Probability for Stilla

Question #45608
(a) One half percent of the population has a particular disease. A test is developed for the disease. The test gives a false positive 3% of the time and a false negative 2% of the time. (a). What is the probability that Joe (a random person) tests positive? (b). Joe just got the bad news that the test came back positive; what is the probability that Joe has the disease?

(b) Three cooks, A, B and C bake a special kind of cake, and with respective probabilities 0.02, 0.03, and 0.05 it fails to rise. In the restaurant where they work, A bake 50 percent of these cakes, B 30 percent and C 20 percent. What proportion of failures is caused by A
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2014-09-08T11:55:24-0400
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