Given: That 3 people out of a total of 3,026 people had an auto accident in the last 10 years
To Determine: An estimate of the percentage of the people who had an auto accident in the past 10 years
Solution
The percentage of any event is given as
[tex]\begin{gathered} P=\frac{x}{n}\times100\% \\ P=percentage \\ x=number\text{ of the event} \\ n=total\text{ number of all events} \end{gathered}[/tex]Apply the formula to given
[tex]\begin{gathered} x=3 \\ n=3026 \\ P=\frac{3}{3026}\times100\% \\ P=0.099\% \\ P\approx0.1\% \end{gathered}[/tex]Hence, an estimate of the percentage of the people who had an auto accident in the past 10 years is 0.1 %
