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The superimposed diagram shows that the probability of a noncommunicable disease in a underdeveloped country is 0.37. But it's not correct…

I tried 0.56*0.78 = 0.44 as the probability of a noncommunicable disease in a underdeveloped country since the probability of a death from a noncommunicable disease is 0.56 and the probability of death in a underdeveloped country is 0.78. The answer is also wrong..

What am I doing wrong. How do you solve this?
 

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it looks like the images are venn diagrams. From the middle diagram you get the .22 in the D set which in the third diagram is 0.02+0.01+0.19

So how would you find the orange area ie the 0.37 area given the 0.78 and the 0.09 and the 0.32?
 
Conditional probability questions should look something like:
P(N|U)=P(N and U)/P(U).
You have both of those probabilities.