If every 24 seconds someone gets in a car crash, how many crashes will happen in 1 minute?

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anonymous · Answer

60/24  = 2.5 car crashes in one minute

anonymous · Answer

60 seconds in 1 minute, how many 24 second time intervals fit into one minute? 2.5 crashes each minute

anonymous · Answer

Thank you guys! :) <3

hero · Answer

How do you determine a half crash?

anonymous · Answer

@hero, sometimes these stats represent averages. that means one minute there might be 2, but one minute there might be 3. The average is 2.5

hero · Answer

That didn't exactly answer the question, "How do you determine half a crash?", but okay.

tkhunny · Answer

This is the danger in stating statistics VERY BADLY, such as this problem statement.  It obviously leads to ludicrous results.  There is no such thing a ½ a crash.  I shake my head almost daily when wuch things are reported.  "Every 3 minutes, _______ is diagnosed."  Hogwash.  "Every 4 hours, __________ is suffered by someone."  Utter hogwash.  It should read something like this, "Over a very long period of observation, it was observed that the average time between car crashes was about 24 seconds."  It's a random distribution, not a fixed point in space and time.

Okay, that's enough raving for now...