The chance that I survive is 0.99. The chance that you survive is
0.99. The chance for each of the other 32 to survive is 0.99. The
chance that we all survive is 0.99^34 or 0.71.
On 10/8/20 12:44 AM, Devon McCormick wrote:
If 34 people have a disease which is fatal about 1% of the time, what is
the chance that no one in the group dies?
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2020 10 7 23 42 40.156
0.99^34
0.710553
34^~-. 0.01 NB. Stating it another way
0.710553
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