Calculate the conditional probability

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Question: In a large city eight percent of the inhabitants have contracted a particular disease. A test for this disease is positive in 80 percent of people who have the disease and is negative in 80 percent of people who do not have the disease. Calculate the probability that a person for whom the test result is positive has the disease?

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