Data on U. S, Work-Related fatalities by cause follow (The World Almanac,2012)Cause of Fatality Number of Fatalities Transportation Incidents 1795 Assaults and violent acts 837 Contacts with objects and equipment 741 Falls 645 Exposure to harmful substances 404 Fires and explosions 113 Assume that a fatality will be randomly chosen from this population. a. What is the probability the fatality resulted froma fall? b. What is the probability the fatality resulted from a transporation incident? c. What cause of fatality is least likely to occur? What is th probability the fatality resulted from this cause?

a) Probability the fatality resulted from a fall = 0.1422

b) Probability the fatality resulted from a transportation incident = 0.3958

c(i) The cause of fatality that is least likely to occur is fatality due to fires and explosions with the lowest number of fatalities, 113.

c(ii) Probability that the fatality resulted from fires and explosions = 0.0249

Step-by-step explanation:

Data on U.S, Work-Related fatalities by cause follow (The World Almanac, 2012)

Cause of Fatality | Number of Fatalities Transportation Incidents | 1795

Assaults and violent acts | 837

Contacts with objects and equipment | 741

Falls | 645

Exposure to harmful substances | 404

Fires and explosions | 113

Total number of fatalities = 1795+837+741+645+404+113 = 4,535

Assume that a fatality will be randomly chosen from this population.

a. What is the probability the fatality resulted from a fall?

The probabilty of an event is given mathematically as the number of elements in that event divided by the Total number of elements in the sample space.

P(E) = n(E) ÷ n(S)

Probability the fatality resulted from a fall = (645/4535) = 0.14223 = 0.1422

b. What is the probability the fatality resulted from a transportation incident?

Probability the fatality resulted from a transportation incident = (1795/4535) = 0.39581 = 0.3958

c(i) What cause of fatality is least likely to occur?

The cause of fatality that is least likely to occur is the cause of fatality with the lowest frequency or number of fatalities. And this is fatality due to fires and explosions with the lowest fatalities of 113

c(ii). What is the probability the fatality resulted from this cause?

This is the probability that the fatality resulted from fires and explosions.

Probability that the fatality resulted from fires and explosions = (113/4535) = 0.02492 = 0.0249

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