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According to the national crime victomization survey (december 2010) published by the US department of Justice , about 11.7 million people were victimes of identity theft over the past 2 years. This number represents 5% of all persons are 16 or older in the United States. Of these victimes, 53% reported that the identify theft occured from the unauthorized use of a credit card. Consider a randomly selected person of age 16 or older in the united states. 

 

a. What is the probability that this person was a victim of identify theft?

 

b. what is the probability that this person was a victim of identify theft that occured from the unauthorized use of a credit card?

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