Question

After attending a church cookout, a number of the attendees are admitted to the emergency room with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. After discovering all the individuals admitted to the ER consumed the egg salad at the event, the leftover egg salad was tested and found to be positive for salmonella. If 83 individuals consumed the egg salad and 49 individuals were admitted to the ER with salmonella, what was the cumulative incidence of salmonella assuming that the 49 individuals admitted to the ER were the only ones to be affected by the bacteria?

A. 0.410
B. 0.590

C. 0.059

D. 0.041

Answer 1

basically this question is very simple.. here it provide theinformation that there are 83 individuale in which 49 affected by bacteria. so the question is asking about the proportion of individuals who affected by bacteria...i.e. 49/83 = 0.590.

hence option B is correct choice.

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