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An AP news service story printed in the newspaper on May 20, 1979, states the following...

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

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