Question

A mandatory airbag law ends up raising the number of traffic fatalities if it lowers fatalities per accident from 0.05 to 0.03 while raising the number of accidents per period from 25,000 to any more than around __________________ accidents per period.

a.43,500
b.38,500
c.57,450
d.41,667

Answer 1

The answer is d. 41,667 accidents.

Step-by-step explanation:

The formula for evaluating the number of accidents raised period when the number of frailties is lowered, and the initial number of accidents is increased from 25,000 to X;

Where X = initial number of accidents per period × (initial frailties of accidents ÷ latest frailties of accidents)

Therefore, X = 25,000 × (0.05 ÷ 0.03) = 41,667 accidents.