25% of the population are smokers. A smoker has 27 times… — JEE Main 2023 Mathematics PYQ

JEE Main 2023 · 25 Jan · Shift 2 · numerical answer

25% of the population are smokers. A smoker has 27 times more chances to develop lung cancer than a non smoker. A person is diagnosed with lung cancer and the probability that that person is a smoker is

\dfrac{k}{10}

. Then the value of

k

is ______.

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Answer: 9

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