Every month 100 million people fly on commercial airlines. Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists. Airport security

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Every month 100 million people fly on commercial airlines. Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists. Airport security

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Every month 100 million people fly on commercial airlines.
Imagine 10 of them are potential terrorists.
Airport security are able to correctly identify that a person is
a terrorist in 99% of cases and a non-terrorist in 99.9% of
cases.
a) A person is identified by airport security as a terrorist.
What is the probability that they are a terrorist? [2 marks]
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