A medical test is used to detect a particular disease. Suppose that 0.2% of the population has the disease. If a person has the disease, there is a 97% chance thatthe test result will be positive. if the person is healthy, there is a 4% chance thatr the test result will be positive. Given that a person is selected at random and thetest indicates a positive result, what is the probability that the person selected has the disease?

We have to use Bayes theorem to find the conditional probability.

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