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A laboratory blood test is 99`%` effective in detecting a certain disease when it is infact,present. However result for `0.5% `of the healthy person tested (i.e.,if a healthy person is tested,then with probability 0.005, the test will imply be has the disease). If `0.1%` of the population actually has the disease,what is the probability that a person has the disease given taht his test result is positive?

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