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A diagnostic test has the probability 0.95 of giving a positive result when applied to a person suffering from a certain disease and a probability 0.10 of giving a positive result when given to a non-sufferer. It is estimated that \(0.5 \%\) of the population are suffering from the disease. If this test is now administered to a person from this population about whom there is no information relating to the incidence of this disease and the test gives a positive result, then the probability that he is a sufferer, is

  1. A 0.9545
  2. B 0.2194
  3. C 0.0455
  4. D 0.9499
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(C) 0.0455

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Consider the events, \(E_1=\) Person suffering from a certain disease \(E_2=\) Person are not suffering from a certain disease \(A=\) Diagnostic test is positive…