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The probability of a woman's surviving breast cancer is $88 \% .$ What is the probability that a woman would not survive breast cancer?
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This can be written as: \[P(A) + P(A') = 1\] where \(P(A)\) is the probability of event A and \(P(A')\) is the probability of the complement of event A. Show more…
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