A newly developed medical procedure to prevent death in women who give birth and experience eclampsia has a 97.5% success rate of saving the woman’s life. If a doctor uses this medical procedure in 6 women who experience eclampsia and have no other comorbid conditions, the probability that all 6 women will survive is approximately 0.859.  True  False

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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  1. A newly developed medical procedure to prevent death in women who give birth and experience eclampsia has a 97.5% success rate of saving the woman’s life. If a doctor uses this medical procedure in 6 women who experience eclampsia and have no other comorbid conditions, the probability that all 6 women will survive is approximately 0.859.

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