Question

A mandatory seatbelt law ends up raising the number of traffic fatalities if it lowers fatalities per accident from 0.11 to 0.08 while raising the number of accidents per period from 100,000 to any more than

Answer 1

Answer:

137,500

Explanation:

Let us assume the number of accidents be x

Now the equation i.e required to determine the number of accidents is shown below:

100,000 × 0.11 = 0.08 × x

11,000 = 0.08 × x

x = 137,500

Therefore the number of accidents per period could be considered from 100,000 to 137,500 the same is to be considered