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1.A highway section has an accident rate of 150 accidents per 100 mvk. If the mean accident rate for all sections is 55 per 100 mvk, and the standard deviation is 26 per 100 mvk,should the section under study be flagged as hazardous with 90 percent confidence?

2. A stretch of four-lane, two-way highway 5.0 km long has a traffic volume of 25,000 vehicles per day. If for the last three years, the total number of accidents recorded was 1,800, determine the accident rate per 99 mvk.

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