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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2007 Paper 1 Section B 4 b Solution by
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Let , , and denote the three disjoint categories, and or the test result. The law of total probability givesTo calculate the requested conditional probability, first combine the two categories with the virus. Their joint negative-test probability is , whereas . Bayes' theorem therefore givesThese numbers use the specified population proportions and test probabilities; the negative result reduces the initial combined proportion to about within this model.
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