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Given information

Given that use the following information to answer the next two exercises. The following are real data from Santa Clara County, CA. As of a certain time, there had been a total of 3,059 documented cases of AIDS in the county. They were grouped into the following categories:

 

 

Suppose a person with AIDS in Santa Clara County is randomly selected.

The main objective is to find P(Person is female GIVEN person got the disease from heterosexual contact).

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The formula to find the probability of an event A is defined as    .

Use the given table to find P(Person is female GIVEN person got the disease from heterosexual contact).

Let be the number of females and B is the number of people effected by the disease from heterosexual contact.

Then,

 

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