Question 6 options: After a serious crime was committed in a small town: The police are going to take the fingerprints of all 750 people in the town, to see if anyone will match a partial fingerprint that was left at the crime scene. If the police fingerprint testing method identifies an innocent person as a criminal, this is called a "false-positive" result. The probability of getting a false-positive result from the police fingerprint matching method, when used upon one individual person, is only 0.2%. Given this information: What is the approximate percentage probability that out of all 750 people that will be tested, there will be at least one false-positive result? Round to four digits past the decimal point, and include a percentage symbol in your answer (with no spaces).
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After a serious crime was committed in a small town: The police are going to take the fingerprints of all 750 people in the town, to see if anyone will match a partial fingerprint that was left at the crime scene.
If the police fingerprint testing method identifies an innocent person as a criminal, this is called a "false-positive" result.
The probability of getting a false-positive result from the police fingerprint matching method, when used upon one individual person, is only 0.2%.
Given this information: What is the approximate percentage probability that out of all 750 people that will be tested, there will be at least one false-positive result?
Round to four digits past the decimal point, and include a percentage symbol in your answer (with no spaces).
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