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Diagnostic test for a certain type of cancer

Consider a diagnostic test for a certain type of cancer, which has a false positive rate of 5% and a false negative rate of 4%. Assume that 5% of the population has this type of cancer.

a) If a randomly selected person has a positive test result, what is the probability that the person has this type of cancer?

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