Every month 100 million people fly on commercial airlines. Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists. Airport security
Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 12:36 pm
Every month 100 million people fly on commercial airlines.
Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists.
Airport security are able to correctly identify that a person is
a terrorist in 99% of cases and a non-terrorist in 99.9% of
cases.
a) A person is identified by airport security as a terrorist.
What is the probability that they are a terrorist? [2 marks]
Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists.
Airport security are able to correctly identify that a person is
a terrorist in 99% of cases and a non-terrorist in 99.9% of
cases.
a) A person is identified by airport security as a terrorist.
What is the probability that they are a terrorist? [2 marks]