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What is the denominator used when calculating Precision?

Question: In one to three sentences, identify what set of items belongs in the denominator when calculating precision for a spam classifier.

Sample answer: The denominator is the total number of messages the classifier predicted as spam, whether those predictions were correct or not.

Key points:

  • Denominator is messages predicted as spam by the classifier
  • Not all messages being evaluated
  • Includes both true positives and false positives

Rubric: Full credit for identifying the denominator as all messages predicted as spam by the classifier, not all messages in the dataset.

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Updated 2026-08-12

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