document.write( "Question 1097027: A certain virus infects one in every 300 people. A test used to detect the virus in a person is positive 85% of the time if the person has the virus and 10% of the time if the person does not have the virus. (This 10% result is called a false positive.) Let A be the event \"the person is infected\" and B be the event \"the person tests positive\"\r
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Assume a population of 300000. 1 in 300 has the virus, or 1000 people. Out of those 1000, 85% or 850 will test positive, and 150 will test negative. Out of the 299,000 who don't have the virus, 269,100 will test negative, while 29,900 will test positive. So:
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\n" ); document.write( "b)Given the obverse of a, the person who tests negative has a 269,100/269,100+150, or 0.9994428969 probability of not having the disease
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