Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 3 - Probability - Section 3.2 Conditional Probability and the Multiplication Rule - Exercises - Page 155: 29

Answer

a) 0.108 b) 0.76 c) No, not unusual; probability $\gt 0.05$

Work Step by Step

Let the variables below represent: A = Pregnancy B = Multiple births a) Calculate the "and" probability as follows: $P(A\times B)= P(A)\times P(B)= 0.45\times 0.24=0.108$ b) Calculate the "not" probability as follows: $P(B'\lvert A)= 1-P(B\lvert A)= 1-0.24=0.76$ c) No, it would not be unusual for a randomly selected embryo transfer to result in a pregnancy and produce a multiple birth because its probability is $0.108$, which is not less than $0.05$.
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