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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 16 people have meningitis.
The results show 2 people who have meningitis gets a negative result and 2 people who don't have meningitis get a positive result.
What was the accuracy of the test?

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Using it's formula, considering the results, it is found that the accuracy of the test is of 0.95 = 95%.

What is the accuracy of a test?

It is given by the number of correct results divided by the number of tests.

In this problem, there were 80 tests, of which 80 - 2 - 2 = 76 had correct results, hence the accuracy is given by:

A = 76/80 = 0.95 = 95%.

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