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A laboratory blood test is effective in detecting a certain disease when it is in fact, present. However, the test also yields a false positive result for of the healthy person tested (that is, if a healthy person is tested, then, with probability , the test will imply he has the disease). If percent of the population actually has the disease, what is the probability that a person has the disease given that his test result is positive?

As per the given question,