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GATE BT 2014 | GA | Question: 10

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$10\%$ of the population in a town is HIV+. A new diagnostic kit for HIV detection is available; this kit correctly identifies HIV+ individuals 95% of the time, and HIV individuals $89\%$ of the time. A particular patient is tested using this kit and is found to be positive. The probability that the individual is actually positive is_______

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