Statistics & DataSuperchallengeRandom Variables
Random Variables · Superchallenge problem
A clinic must screen 100 people for an infection; each person is infected with probability , independently. It splits them into pools of equal size (with a divisor of 100, ) and tests each pool's combined sample once. A negative pool clears all its members; a positive pool (at least one infected member) is followed by a separate test for each of its members. With the best choice of , what is the expected total number of tests? Round to the nearest hundredth.