Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 3.49ACI
Likelihood of a tax return audit. At the beginning of each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) releases information on the likelihood of a tax return being audited. In 2013, the IRS audited 1,242,479 individual tax returns from the total of 145,236,429 filed returns; also, the IRS audited 25,905 returns from the total of 1,924,887 corporation returns filed (IRS 2014 Data Book).
- a. Suppose an individual tax return is randomly selected. What is the
probability that the return was audited by the IRS? - b. Refer to part a. Determine the probability that an individual return was not audited by the IRS.
- c. Suppose a corporation tax return is randomly selected. What is the probability that the return was audited by the IRS?
- d. Refer to part c. Determine the probability that a corporation return was not audited by the IRS.
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