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A certain disease occurs in 17% of a population. The disease
diagnosed using a blood test. For a person who has the disease provides
test a positive result (the person is diagnosed with the disease) in 98% of cases.
However, the test gives a false positive result, ie says that a person is actually healthy
have the disease, in 5% of cases.

A randomly selected person takes the blood sample which gives a negative result. What
is the probability that the person is healthy?



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Let A be the event that a person has a disease. Thn, P(A)=0.17. Let
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