Question

An AP news service story printed in the newspaper on May 20, 1979, states the following with regard to debris from Skylab striking someone on the ground: "The odds are 1 in 150 that a piece of Skylab will hit someone. But 4 billion people...live in the zone in which pieces could fall. So any one person's chances of being struck are one in 150 times 4 billion or one in 600 billion." Do you see any inaccuracies in this reasoning

Answer 1