The incidence of breast cancer varies depending on a woman's age. The National Cancer Institute gives the following probabilities for a randomly chosen woman in her 40s who takes a mammography to screen for breast cancer:
If a randomly chosen woman in her 40s taking the mammography screening test gets a positive test result, the probability that she indeed has breast cancer is the positive predicted value, PPV = P(Cancer | Positive test) . What is the PPV for this age group?
A) 0.012
B) 0.108
C) 0.500
D) 0.800
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