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By examining the chest X-ray, probability that T.B is detected when a person is actually suffering is 0.99. the probability that the doctor diagnoses incorrectly that a person has T.B. on the basis of X-ray is 0.001. in a certain city 1 in 100 persons suffers from T.B. A person is selected at random is diagnosed to have T.B. What is the chance that he actually has T.B.?

A

`110/221`

B

`2/223`

C

`110/223`

D

`1/221`

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