EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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Chapter 6.4, Problem 11E
Commercial Aviation. For Exercises 9–12, use the following table, which summarizes some data on commercial aviation flights in the United States for three separate years.
- 11. For each of the three years, find the fatality rate in deaths per million passengers. On the basis of those rates, which year was the safest? Why?
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EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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