Statistics Homework- please help!!!?

Posted on 2016-02-25 19:05:00 in Statistics by MEGAN

A defendant in Ohio was indicted on December 17, 2009, on charges of aggravated burglary and assault. A hair found at the crime scene was tested at six loci and demonstrated a specific combination of alleles found in about 1 in 1.6 million individuals in the population. Comparison of the DNA profile found on the hair with a data base of convicted felons revealed a match between the allelic profile found on the hair and an individual in the data base (the defendant). Defense attorneys in the case requested that the State perform additional DNA testing since several previously untested loci were available to test. The results of this testing revealed that the defendant did not match at some of these newly tested markers, indicating that the DNA from the hair was not the defendant’s. The charges were dropped. If the DNA profile (or combination of alleles) found on the hair is possessed by 1 in 1.6 million individuals, and the data base of convicted felons contains 4.5 million individuals, approximately how many individuals in the data base would demonstrate a match between their DNA and that found on the hair?

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