Question

A particular disease is tested for and the results determine that it occurs in about 1 of every 275 Hispanic baby births and about 1 of every 184,000 non Hispanic baby births. Find the empirical probability that a randomly selected Hispanic baby will have this disease.

Answer 1

Since the selected baby is Hispanic, we can use the probability given for Hispanic babies, which is 1 of 275.

`P=(1)/(275)\approx0.0036=0.36\text{ \%}`