2014 AIME II Problems/Problem 2
Problem
Arnold is studying the prevalence of three health risk factors, denoted by A, B, and C, within a population of men. For each of the three factors, the probability that a randomly selected man in the population has only this risk factor (and none of the others) is 0.1. For any two of the three factors, the probability that a randomly selected man has exactly these two risk factors (but not the third) is 0.14. The probability that a randomly selected man has all three risk factors, given that he has A and B is 
. The probability that a man has none of the three risk factors given that he does not have risk factor A is 
, where 
and 
are relatively prime positive integers. Find 
.
Solution
We first assume a population of 
to facilitate solving. Then we simply organize the statistics given into a Venn diagram.
![[asy] pair A,B,C,D,E,F,G; A=(0,55); B=(60,55); C=(60,0); D=(0,0); draw(A--B--C--D--A); E=(30,35); F=(20,20); G=(40,20); draw(circle(E,15)); draw(circle(F,15)); draw(circle(G,15)); draw("$A$",(30,52)); draw("$B$",(7,7)); draw("$C$",(53,7)); draw("100",(5,60)); draw("10",(30,40)); draw("10",(15,15)); draw("10",(45,15)); draw("14",(30,16)); draw("14",(38,29)); draw("14",(22,29)); draw("$x$",(30,25)); draw("$y$",(10,45)); [/asy]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/1/c/a/1cabe8198c2c6126c59a6a8a52dc675c24f950b3.png)
Let 
be the number of men with all three risk factors. Since "the probability that a randomly selected man has all three risk factors, given that he has A and B is ," we can tell that 
, since there are people with all three factors and 14 with only A and B. Thus 
.
Let 
be the number of men with no risk factors. It now follows that
![\[y= 100 - 3 \cdot 10 - 3 \cdot 14 - 7 = 21.\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/4/6/a/46a7e0dd57f5bdfc92811742cf02ad4afc159b57.png)
The number of men with risk factor A is 
(10 with only A, 28 with A and one of the others, and 7 with all three). Thus the number of men without risk factor 
is 55, so the desired conditional probability is 
. So the answer is 
.
See also
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