Find the Indicated Probability

question 145

Multiple Choice

Find the indicated probability. Round to the nearest thousandth.
-In a blood testing procedure, blood samples from 6 people are combined into one mixture. The mixture will only test negative if all the individual samples are negative. If the probability that an individual sample tests
Positive is 0.1, what is the probability that the mixture will test positive?

• A) 1.00
• B) 0.531
• C) 0.00000100
• D) 0.469

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