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When doing blood testing for a viral infection, the procedure can be made more efficient and less expensive

by combining partial samples of different blood specimens. If samples from four people are combined and the
mixture tests negative, we know that all four individual samples are negative. Find the probability of a
positive result for four samples combined into one mixture, assuming the probability of an individual blood
sample testing positive for the virus is 0.09

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User Twilson
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Answer:

0.246

Explanation:

p(virus) = 0.09

= 1-p(none test positive)

=1-(1-0.09)^3

=1-0.91^3

=0.246

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User Igor Voynov
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