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The National Institute for Sports estimates that 13​% of all college athletes use steroids. A new...

The National Institute for Sports estimates that 13​% of all college athletes use steroids. A new urine test correctly diagnoses the presence of steroids in 97% of athletes that have used steroids in the past 18 months. The test gives a positive result to 14% of athletes who do not use steroids​ (a false​ positive).

What is the probability an athlete uses steroids given that he has a positive​ result?

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TOPIC:Application of the Bayes' theorem.

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