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Given information

United Blood Services is a blood bank that serves more than  hospitals in  states. According to their website, a
person with type O blood and a negative Rh factor (Rh-) can donate blood to any person with any bloodtype. Their data
show that  of people have type O blood and  of people have Rh- factor; of people have type O or Rh- factor.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Let  and  be two events, then we have

.

Let the events be

Event that person has type O blood,

Event that a person have Rh-factor.

,

,

.

We need to calculate the probability that a person has both type O blood and the Rh-factor

Therefore, is given as

,

.

Substituting the values, we get

,

.

Hence, the probability that a person does not have both type O blood and the Rh-factor is .  

   

             

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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