Cholera, a serious intestinal disease, broke out in London in the mid-19th century. Research by a physician named John Snow indicated that the disease was caused by germs in polluted water. A vaccine for cholera was then developed in the late 1800s. A vaccine is a drug that helps a person become immune to a disease. Scientists studied 818 people to determine the effects of a cholera vaccine. The study lasted from 1894 to 1896.   Infected Not Infected Vaccinated 3 276 Not Vaccinated 66 473 Use the information in the table to complete the following four statements. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.         (a) % of those vaccinated were infected. Round to one decimal place.

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Cholera, a serious intestinal disease, broke out in London in the mid-19th century. Research by a physician named John Snow indicated that the disease was caused by germs in polluted water. A vaccine for cholera was then developed in the late 1800s. A vaccine is a drug that helps a person become immune to a disease. Scientists studied 818 people to determine the effects of a cholera vaccine. The study lasted from 1894 to 1896.

  Infected Not Infected
Vaccinated 3 276
Not Vaccinated 66 473

Use the information in the table to complete the following four statements. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.

 

 

 

 
(a) % of those vaccinated were infected. Round to one decimal place.

 

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