Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disease caused by a mutation on the X chromosome. Duringreproduction this mutation arises spontaneously on each of the X chromosomes of the parents,independently and with probability μ = 0.932. We can therefore view the production of a child asconsisting of two probabilistic experiments. First, one of the two sex chromosomes is chosen withequal probability from each parent. Second, for each X chromosome that is chosen, the musculardystrophy mutation arises independently with probability μ. All male children carrying themutation will develop muscular dystrophy, whereas only females whose X chromosomes bothcarry the mutation will develop the disease. What is the probability that a child will develop thedisease? Round your answer to five decimal places.Answer:

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