Problem 2. Imagine that 60 passengers on a cruise ship might be carrying a rare virus, and government healthworkers randomly (without replacement) select ten passengers for testing. What is the minimum number of the 60passengers that must be carrying the virus to make the probability that at least one of the ten selected passengerstests positive for the virus is greater than or equal to 0.95?be

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