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Exercise 2.27
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Let be the event that the suspect is guilty. Let be the event that one of the criminals has blood type and the other has blood type .
Thus,
For to be larger than , has to be smaller than . This result makes sense, since if , then half of the population has blood type , and finding it at the crime scene gives us no information as to whether the suspect is guilty.