You conduct 50,000 tests, 1500 people test positive, what's the positivity rate?

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You conduct 50,000 tests, 1500 people test positive, what's the positivity rate?

Our Positivity Rate formula is below:
Positivity Rate = 100% * positive tests / Total tests

Plugging in our numbers from the problem, we get:
Positivity Rate = 100% * 1500/50000
Positivity Rate = 100% * 0.03
Positivity Rate = 3%