DNA Testing
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Your friend Alex calls you excitedly to tell you he is going to be on the Expanse Variety show, hosted by Minister Springer. You tell him this cannot ever be a good thing and that you have a bad feeling about this. As you suspected, once when he comes out on the stage, there sits one of his former girlfriends, Julie Mao, and a 3 year-old daughter (Mei), and four guys he has never met before. Minister
Springer provides the results from the DNA testing laboratory. Alex and all four other men, Julie and Mei had each been tested for five different STR loci (locus names are in the top row). The numbers in each column are the numbers of repeats for each person tested. Is Alex the Dad? If not, can any of the others be dad, and if so, which one(s)? To get the full points you need to explain precisely why each potential deadbeat dad is excluded. So which Dads are off the hook and why? Who has to pony up for young Mei’s child support?
