Researchers are studying one particular type of disease that affects women more often than men. Studies show that about one woman in seven (approximately 14.3 percent) who live to be 90 will develop the disease. Suppose that of those women who develop this disease, a test is negative 2 percent of the time. Also suppose that in the general population of women, the test for the disease is negative about 85 percent of the time. Let B = woman develops the disease and let N = tests negative. Suppose one woman is selected at random.
f. Are having the disease and testing negative mutually exclusive?
OpenStax Statistics, 3.3 Two Basic Rules of Probability, exercise 19