Quiz: Quiz4 This Question: 1 pt of 15 (8 complete) Traffic checks on a certain s

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Quiz: Quiz4 This Question: 1 pt of 15 (8 complete) Traffic checks on a certain section or highway suggest that 70% of drivers are speeding there Since 0 7 x 0-049, te ation rule mg % chance that two vehicles in a row are both speeding What's wrong with that reasoning? the correct answer below The reasoning is correct The sum of the probabilities of the two given events does not equal 1, so this is not a legtimale probability assignment o A. There is a 49% chance that two cars in a row are speeding O B. O c There are cases when the speed of one car is not independent of the speed of another car, so the multplicat on rule does not apply O D. The speed of the two cars can have common oulcomes. The speeds are not disjoint, so the multipication nule does not apply

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here abvove multiplication rule is for independent events ; which is not true when terms are not independent.

hence option C is correct

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