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The article “Integrating Risk Assessment and Life Cycle
Chapter 2, Problem 6E(choose chapter or problem)
The article “Integrating Risk Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Insulation” (Y. Nishioka, J. Levy, et al., Risk Analysis, 2002: 1003–1017) estimates that 5.6% of a certain popula- tion has asthma, and that an asthmatic has probability 0.027 of suffering an asthma attack on a given day. A person is chosen at random from this population. What is the probability that this person has an asthma attack on that day?
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QUESTION:
The article “Integrating Risk Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Insulation” (Y. Nishioka, J. Levy, et al., Risk Analysis, 2002: 1003–1017) estimates that 5.6% of a certain popula- tion has asthma, and that an asthmatic has probability 0.027 of suffering an asthma attack on a given day. A person is chosen at random from this population. What is the probability that this person has an asthma attack on that day?
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Answer:
Step 1 of 3:
The event that the randomly chosen from the population is asthmatic is denoted by A.
Since, 5.6% of a certain population have asthma.
Then, P(A) = 0.056.
Let B denotes that an asthmatic have the probability 0.027 of suffering an asthma attack on a given day.
Therefore, P(B) = 0.027.