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According to Krantz in His Book What the Odds Are

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According to Krantz in his book What the Odds Are (1992, p. 161) , the probability that a randomly selected American will be injured by lightning in a given year is 1/685000. What does this probability mean?


A) Every 1 out of 685,000 Americans will be injured by lightning in a given year.
B) If we were to randomly select an American many many times, then the proportion of times that selected American would be injured by lightning in a given year is 1/685000.
C) If we were to randomly select 100 Americans, none of them would be injured by lightning in a given year.
D) Out of 685,000 years, no one will get injured by lightning in 684,999 of those years.

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