In a vegetable garden, six seventeenths of the plants are peppers. Of the pepper plants, two fourths are red peppers. What fraction of the plants are red peppers? twelve fifty sixths
twelve twenty ones
eight fifty sixths
eight twenty ones

Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297