Question: Manufacturing ship - to - ship missiles ( designed to be fired by surface vessels against enemy surface vessels, or near - surface targets, such

Manufacturing ship-to-ship missiles (designed to be fired by surface vessels against enemy surface vessels, or near-surface targets, such as coastal installations) is a challenge. Explosive payloads must be stable during transport - including withstanding potential shocks like train derailments or truck accidents at highway speeds - then stable during long storage times aboard ship, but still volatile enough when triggered to explode forcefully. This balance between stability and explosiveness makes the creation of 'duds' (missiles that won't function) more likely, and also makes detecting duds more difficult.
Acme Corporation claims to have an industry-best process of dud-detection that allows them to supply missiles with a dud rate of no more than 1 in 2,000. You are aboard a destroyer supplied with Acme missiles, and have been tasked with checking your inventory for duds using ship's tools, which have an accuracy rate of 98%, that is, in 98% of cases the tools will detect a dud if present, and in 98% of cases where the missile is good will affirm that. Among the 112 missiles aboard, you find 2 that register as duds.
 Manufacturing ship-to-ship missiles (designed to be fired by surface vessels against

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