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On the average, only 1 person in 1000 has a particular rare blood type.

a) Find the probability that, in a city of 10,000 people, no one has this blood type.

b) How many people would have to be tested to give a probability greater than 1/2 of finding at least one person with this blood type?

 Feb 17, 2020
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p=0.001a) P[no one in 10000 has blood type]=(10.001)10000=(0.999)10000=0.0000451733 b) P[at least 1 w/type in n tested]=1P[none w/type in n tested]=1(10.001)n=1(0.999)n1212(0.999)nln(1/2)nln(0.999)ln(0.5)ln(0.999)nn693

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 Feb 18, 2020

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