An AP news service story, printed in the Gainesville Sun on May 20, 1979, states the

Chapter 2, Problem 2.171

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An AP news service story, printed in the Gainesville Sun on May 20, 1979, states the following with regard to debris from Skylab striking someone on the ground: The odds are 1 in 150 that a piece of Skylab will hit someone. But 4 billion people ... live in the zone in which pieces could fall. So any one persons chances of being struck are one in 150 times 4 billionor one in 600 billion. Do you see any inaccuracies in this reasoning?

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