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At a recent conference, an executive from an insurance company claimed that more accidents with fatalities...

At a recent conference, an executive from an insurance company claimed that more accidents with fatalities involve drunk driving than not. To test this claim, you take a random sample of 120 accidents with fatalities and find that 75 of them involved drunk driving. Is this enough evidence to support the executive’s claim?

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