Question

Government data assign a single cause for each death that occurs in the United States. The data show that the probability is 0.27 that a randomly chosen death was due to heart disease, and is 0.23 that it was due to cancer. What is the probability that a death was due to either heart disease or cancer

Answer 1

0.50

Explanation:

To answer this question, we have the following data available:

Probability of randomly chosen death caused by a heart disease = 0.27

Probability of randomly chosen death caused by cancer = 0.23

We are to calculate the probability that the death was as a result of either cancer or heart disease.

P(cancer or heart disease)

= 0.27 + 0.23

= 0.50

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