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Q55Section C (Section C)55 of 60

Posterior probability of no heart disease

In an ethnic group, 30%30\% of the adult male population is known to have heart disease. A test indicates high cholesterol level in 80%80\% of adult males with heart disease. But the test also indicates high cholesterol levels in 10%10\% of the adult males with no heart disease. Then the probability (round off to 2 decimal places), that a randomly selected adult male from this population does not have heart disease given that the test indicates high cholesterol level, equals __________

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