If a Person Has Had TB During His or Her

question 12

Multiple Choice

If a person has had TB during his or her lifetime, how likely is it that the person will get the disease again?

• A) 5% to 15%
• B) 20% to 25%
• C) 1%
• D) 50%

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Definitions:

Expected Frequency

The theoretical number of times an outcome is anticipated to occur in a statistical experiment based on the total number of observations and the probabilities of outcomes.

Uniformly Distributed

Describes a distribution where all outcomes are equally likely to occur.

Capital Punishment

A legal penalty where a person is sentenced to death by the state as punishment for a crime.

Poisson Distribution

A discrete probability distribution expressing the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming that these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.