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1.3 Exercise 10

Avg difficulty 2.5

the table contains the total number of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States for a period of 18 years.

Year Total number of crashes Year Total number of crashes
Year 1 36,254 Year 11 38,444
Year 2 37,241 Year 12 39,252
Year 3 37,494 Year 13 38,648
Year 4 37,324 Year 14 37,435
Year 5 37,107 Year 15 34,172
Year 6 37,140 Year 16 30,862
Year 7 37,526 Year 17 30,296
Year 8 37,862 Year 18 29,757
Year 9 38,491 Total 653,782
Year 10 38,477

Answer the following questions.

  1. What is the frequency of deaths measured from Year 7 through Year 11?
  2. What percentage of deaths occurred after Year 13?
  3. What is the relative frequency of deaths that occurred in Year 7 or before?
  4. What is the percentage of deaths that occurred in Year 18?
  5. What is the cumulative relative frequency for Year 13? Explain what this number tells you about the data.

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