Question

80 volunteers take a meningitis test to help doctors see how accurate this test is at identifying whether someone has meningitis or not. a positive result means the test has identified you as having meningitis. of the volunteers, only 17 people have meningitis. the results show 5 people who have meningitis gets a negative result and 7 people who don't have meningitis get a positive result. what was the accuracy of the test?

Answer 1

Using it's formula, it is found that the accuracy of the test was of 0.85 = 85%.

What is the accuracy of a test?

The accuracy of a test is given by the number of correct results divided by the number of results.

In this problem, there are 80 tests, and of those, 5 + 7 = 12 had incorrect results, hence 68 had correct results.

Hence the accuracy of the test is given by:

a = 68/80 = 0.85 = 85%.

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