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A certain pregnancy test claims to be 99% accurate. Of 10,000 women who take the test, 40% of them are actually pregnant. Determine the number of true and false positive tests results and the number of true and false negative test results.

A) Of the women who are pregnant, what percent actually tested positive?!!?
B) Of the women who test positive, what percent are actually pregnant???

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A. 99%
B. 98.5%

I think it could be this way
A certain pregnancy test claims to be 99% accurate. Of 10,000 women who take the test-example-1
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according to the test, 9,999 women are pregnant but 4,000 people are actually pregnant
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