SOLUTION: A medical treatment has a success rate of 90%. Two patients will be treated with this treatment. Assuming the results are independent for the two patients, what is the probability

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Question 836114: A medical treatment has a success rate of 90%. Two patients will be treated with this treatment. Assuming the results are independent for the two patients, what is the probability that neither one of them will be successfully cured?
Answer by KMST(5328) About Me  (Show Source):
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For each patient, there is a 10% chance (probability=0.10) that the treatment will not work.
The probability that neither patient will be cured is
0.10%2A0.10=0.01 or 1%