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3.2 Exercise 12

Avg difficulty 2.5

A quality control group is designing an automatic test procedure for compact disk players coming from a production line. Experience shows that one percent of the units produced are defective. The automatic test procedure has probability 0.05 of giving a false positive indication and probability 0.02 of giving a false negative. That is, if D is the event a unit tested is defective, and T is the event that it tests satisfactory, then P(T|D)=0.05P \left(\right. T \left|\right. D \left.\right) = 0 . 05 and P(Tc|Dc)=0.02P \left(\right. T^{c} \left|\right. D^{c} \left.\right) = 0 . 02. Determine the probability P(Dc|T)P \left(\right. D^{c} \left|\right. T \left.\right) that a unit which tests good is, in fact, free of defects.

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 3.2 Problems on Conditional Probability, exercise 12

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