Steroids A company has developed a drug test to detect steroid use by athletes. The test is accurate 95% of the time when an athlete has taken steroids. It is 97% accurate when an athlete hasn’t taken...

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Steroids A company has developed a drug test to detect steroid use by athletes. The test is accurate 95% of the time when an athlete has taken steroids. It is 97% accurate when an athlete hasn’t taken steroids. Suppose that the drug test will be used in a population of athletes in which 10% have actually taken steroids. Let’s choose an athlete at random and administer the drug test.

(a) Make a tree diagram showing the sample space of this chance process.


(b) What’s the probability that the randomly selected athlete tests positive? Show your work.


(c) Suppose that the chosen athlete tests positive. What’s the probability that he or she actually used steroids? Show your work.




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Answer To: Steroids A company has developed a drug test to detect steroid use by athletes. The test is accurate...

David answered on Dec 25 2021
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a.
b. P (positive test result) = 0.095 + 0.027 = 0.122
c. P (steroid use I positive test result)
= 0.095/0.122 = 0.7787
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