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Refer to the table which summarizes the results of testing for a certain disease.
 
  Positive Test Result Negative Test Result
  Subject has the disease 87 9
  Subject does not have the disease 27 312
  A test subject is randomly selected and tested for the disease. What is the probability the subject
  has the disease given that the test result is negative?
  A) 0.094 B) 0.028 C) 0.972 D) 0.221

Question 2

In one town, the number of burglaries in a week has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 1.9. Find
  the probability that in a randomly selected week the number of burglaries is at least three.
 
  A) 0.1710 B) 0.1253 C) 0.8290 D) 0.7037 E) 0.2963



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Answer to Question 1

B

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