Negative Conditional Probability?

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$A$ and $B$ are events with $P(A)=0.2, P(B)=0.6$ and $P(B|A)=0.9$.

Find $P(B|\bar{A})$, giving answers to within $1\%$ of the exact value.

The problem is shown in the image above. I need to find P(B given not A), however I am getting an answer of -0.3 which doesn't make sense.

I am applying the following equation:

$$P(B)=P(B|A)+P(B|\bar{A})$$

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The Law of total probability is as follows, $$P(B)=P(B|A)P(A)+P(B|\bar{A})P(\bar{A})$$

some terms are missing from your equations. Hence, the error.