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Answer: Using Probability to Identify Unlikely Events. In Exercises 2936, consider an
Chapter 4, Problem 31(choose chapter or problem)
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QUESTION:
Car Crashes In a recent year, among 135,933,000 registered passenger cars in the United States, there were 10,427,000 crashes. Find the probability that a randomly selected passenger car in the United States will crash this year. Is it unlikely for a car to crash in a given year? What does this suggest about driving?
ANSWER:
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The number of registered passenger cars in US are: 135,933,000
Number of car crashes in one year is found to be 10,427,000
Let's remind ourselves the formula to find the probability
Probability of an event is defined as the ratio of the total number of times the required event occurred to the number of events.
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