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Researchers use Elisa to test for Lyme disease. Lyme disease infects 0.0009 of the US population...

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Researchers use Elisa to test for Lyme disease. Lyme diseaseinfects 0.0009 of the US population each year. The test has adetection rate of 0.98 and a false positive rate of 0.2.

a. What is the probability of a positive test?

b. What is the probability that a person with a positive resultactually has Lyme disease?

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