When doing blood testing for a viral infection, the procedure can be made more efficient and less expensive by combining partial samples of different blood specimens. If samples from five people are combined and the mixture tests negative, we know that all five individual samples are negative. Find the probability of a positive result for five samples combined into one mixture, assuming the probability of an individual blood sample testing positive for the virus is 0.06.

0.271

Step-by-step explanation:

Probability of complement of an even is 1 decreased by the probability of the event

P(At least one) =1 - P(none)

The probability that of testing negative is 0.9 because the probability of testing positive is 0.1

P( at least one) = 1 - P(none) = 1 - (0.93^3) = 0.271

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step-by-step explanation:

since the sequence is geometric there is a common ratio r between consecutive terms, that is

r = 4 ÷ - 2 = - 2

r = - 8 ÷ 4 = - 2

r = 16 ÷ 8 = - 2

the next term - 13 must be incorrect as it should be - 32 for the sequence to be geometric.

the first 4 terms are therefore geometric with common ratio r = - 2