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Question 1161881: Of the 538 people who had an annual check-up at a doctor’s office, 215 had high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who has a check-up will have high blood pressure.
Find the probability of correctly answering the first 4 questions on a multiple choice test using random guessing. Each question has 3 possible answers.
Answer by ikleyn(52898) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You can estimate this probability EMPIRICALLY as P = = 0.399 ~ 0.4,
without having serious basis for it.
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For the other problem, there are = 81 possible outcomes / (answers).
The probability to guess randomly any one specific combination ("the correct answer") is .
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To learn on typical probability problems of an introductory level, look into the lessons
- Simple and simplest probability problems
- Solving probability problems using complementary probability
- Elementary Probability problems related to combinations
- A True/False test
- A multiple choice answers test
- Conditional probability problems
- Typical probability problems from the archive
- Experimental probability problems
- Elementary operations on sets help solving Probability problems
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