Naina receives emails that consists of 18% spam of those emails. The spam filter is 93% reliable i.e., 93% of the mails it marks as spam are actually a spam and 93% of spam mails are correctly labelled as spam. If a mail marked spam by her spam filter, determine the probability that it is really spam.
(a) 50%
(b) 84%
(c) 39%
(d) 63%
The question was asked during an interview.
This key question is from Discrete Probability in portion Discrete Probability of Discrete Mathematics