Approximately 1.55 percent of people ages 40-50 have breast cancer.* Suppose a person has a 86 percentchance of a positive test from a mammogram given they have breast cancer (a true positive result). Let's alsosuppose a person has a 6 percent chance of a positive test from a mammogram given they do not have breastcancer (a false positive result).Complete the table, using a population of 100,000 people.Positive test resultNegative test resultTotalHas breast cancerDoes not have breast cancerTotal100,000What is the probability a person has breast cancer given that they just had a positive test?% Give answer as a percentage rounded to two places after the decimal.

Probability is a chance of occurrence of any event.

Approximately 1.55 percent of people ages 40-50 have breast cancer.* Suppose a person has a 86 percent chance of a positive test from a mammogram given they have breast cancer (a true positive result). Let's also suppose a person has a 6 percent chance of a positive test from a mammogram given they do not have breast cancer (a false positive result).

Approximately 1.55 percent of people ages 40-50 have breast cancer.* Suppose a person has a 86 percent chance of a positive test from a mammogram given they have breast cancer (a true positive result). Let's also suppose a person has a 6 percent chance of a positive test from a mammogram given they do not have breast cancer (a false positive result).

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data

Problem 10CYU

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