Question

A healthcare company develops a test for a disease and finds that the probability of receiving a false positive is 0.04. Which of the following gives the best interpretation of receiving a false positive report from this test?

Answer 1

After testing thousands of people for this disease, it is possible that approximately 4% of the positive results should actually be negative results.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

If 100 healthy people were tested for this disease, the test results from this group would indicate that 96 people did not have the disease and 4 people had the disease.

Answer: Option 1.

Step-by-step explanation:

Certain sampling and testing are done by the scientists and the doctors about the diseases on the people so that the doctors can come out with the medicinal treatment or some other kind of cure for that particular kind of disease.

In the case that has been discussed in the question above, the people that are suffering from this disease are four people out of hundred people who were tested for the disease.