Determining the chances of each event happening

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Question: A newspaper story released by the Associated Press noted that "a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that a motorist has about the same chance of being a carjacking victim as being killed in a traffic accident, 1 in 5000" [Davis (CA) Enterprise, 3 April 1994, p. A9]. Discuss this statement with regard to your own chances of each event happening to you.

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