A pharmaceutical company has developed a test for a scarce disease that is present in 0.5% of the population. The test is 98% ac

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A pharmaceutical company has developed a test for a scarce disease that is present in 0.5% of the population. The test is 98% ac

curate in determining a positive result, and the chance of a false positive is 4%. What is the probability that someone who tests positive actually has the disease?

Mathematics

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Lapatulllka [165] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-23T20:13:14+03:00

Lapatulllka [165]3 years ago

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P(positive| has the disease)=0.96

bogdanovich [222] · Answer 2 · 2022-03-23T19:04:41+03:00

bogdanovich [222]3 years ago

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49% because there's 98% that the test is right BUT you only have 0.5% chance to actually have it, so 98×0.5=49