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A test to detect an infection gives a positive result 98% of the time if a person is infected. It is 97% accurate for people who are not infected.

____% of results will be false negatives, and
______% of results will be false positives.

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the first blank is 2% and the second is 3%

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math teacher had this problems but it might be different since im in the UK
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