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Use Venn diagrams to work Exercises 17–22. (See Example 9.)
Fatal Vehicle Accidents According to 2015 data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the probability that the driver in a fatal vehicle accident is female (event F) is .2584. The probability that the driver is female and is 24 years old or less is .0536. Find the probability of the given events.
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