At a hospitals emergency room, patients are classified and 20% of them are critical, 30%

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At a hospitals emergency room, patients are classified and 20% of them are critical, 30% are serious, and 50% are stable. Of the critical ones, 30% die; of the serious, 10% die; and of the stable, 1% die. Given that a patient dies, what is the conditional probability that the patient was classified as critical?

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QUESTION:

At a hospitals emergency room, patients are classified and 20% of them are critical, 30% are serious, and 50% are stable. Of the critical ones, 30% die; of the serious, 10% die; and of the stable, 1% die. Given that a patient dies, what is the conditional probability that the patient was classified as critical?

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20% of the patients at a hospital are critical, 30% are serious, and 50% are stable. Of the critical ones, 30% die; of the serious, 10% die; and of the stable, 1% die.

 

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