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Equal priors, a costly miss

A classifier reads XX. Under "negative" (H0H_0), XNormal(0,1)X \sim \text{Normal}(0, 1); under "positive" (H1H_1), XNormal(3,1)X \sim \text{Normal}(3, 1). The two states are equally likely, π0=π1=0.5\pi_0 = \pi_1 = 0.5. A false alarm costs 11 unit; a miss costs 99 units. You declare "positive" when X>cX > c.

Find the cost-minimizing cutoff cc.

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