Question: A newlie-detector test has been devised and must be tested before it is put into use. One hundred people are selected atrandom, and each person

A newlie-detector test has been devised and must be tested before it is put into use. One hundred people are selected atrandom, and each person draws and keeps a card from a box of 100 cards. Half the cards instruct the person to lie and the others instruct the person to tell the truth. Of those wholied, 85% fail the newlie-detector test(that is the test indicatedlying). Of those who told thetruth, 6% failed the test. What is the probability that a randomly chosen subject will have lied given that the subject failed thetest? That the subject will not have lied given that the subject failed thetest?

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