Question

QUESTION 12

Suppose that in a country of 72 million people, about 3600 die from drowning each year. What is the percent chance that a person will drown in a given year?

0.002%

0.003%

0.004%

0.005%

Answer 1

3,600 / 72,000,000 x 100 = 0.005%

answer

0.005%

Answer 2

we know that

The probability of an event is the ratio of the size of the event space to the size of the sample space.

The size of the sample space is the total number of possible outcomes

The event space is the number of outcomes in the event you are interested in.

so

Let

x---------> size of the event space

y--------> size of the sample space

the probability is equal to

`P=(x)/(y)`

in this problem we have

`y=72,000,000\ people`

`x=3,600\ people`

find the percent chance that a person will drown in a given year

substitute the values in the formula of probability

`P=(3,600)/(72,000,000)`

`P=0.00005`

convert to percentage------> multiply by
`100`

`percentage=0.00005*100=0.005\%`

therefore

the answer is

`0.005\%`