What is the probability of death due to lung cancer given that the person is a smoker?

Question by Tuitogamaatoe: What is the probability of death due to lung cancer given that the person is a smoker?
Let S be the event the person smokes, L be the event that a person dies due to lung cancer.
A study of residents of a region showed that 20% were smokers. the probability of death due to lung cancer, given that a person smoked, was ten times the probability due to lung cancer, given tha the person did not smoke. If the probability of death due to lung cancer in the region is 0.006.

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Answer by M3
the q is incomplete

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