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Breast Cancer To explain why the chance of a woman getting breast cancer in the next year goes up each year, while the chance of a woman getting breast cancer in her lifetime goes down, Ruma Falk made the following analogy. Suppose you are looking for a letter that you may have lost. You have
a. What is the probability that the letter is in drawer
b. Given that the letter is not in drawer
c. Given that the letter is not in drawer
d. Given that the letter is not in drawers
e. Based on your answers to parts a–d, what is happening to the probability that the letter is in the next drawer?
f. What is the probability that the letter is in some drawer?
g. Given that the letter is not in drawer
h. Given that the letter is not in drawer
i. Given that the letter is not in drawers
j. Based on your answers to parts f–i, what is happening to the probability that the letter is in some drawer?
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