A binary classifier reports 99% accuracy on a dataset with 1% positives but predicts every example as negative. Which conclusion is correct?

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  1. More negative test examples prove that positive detection works.
  2. The classifier is necessarily production-ready because accuracy exceeds 95%.
  3. The model has perfect positive-class recall.
  4. Accuracy hides the failure; inspect positive-class precision, recall, and the confusion matrix.

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