22. By examining the MRI result, theprobability that cancer is detected whena person is actually suffering, is 0.99.The probability of a healthy persondiagnosed to have cancer is 0.001. In acertain city, 1 in 1000 people suffersfrom cancer. A person is selected atrandom and is diagnosed to have cancer.What is the probability that he actuallyhas cancer?What are the values reflected in thequestion?

22. By examining the MRI result, theprobability that cancer is detecte

1.	22. By examining the MRI result, theprobability that cancer is detected whena person is actually suffering, is 0.99.The probability of a healthy persondiagnosed to have cancer is 0.001. In acertain city, 1 in 1000 people suffersfrom cancer. A person is selected atrandom and is diagnosed to have cancer.What is the probability that he actuallyhas cancer?What are the values reflected in thequestion?
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