Question
What are the odds against an earthquake occuring on a certain day in a certain area if the odds of it occurring is 0.05?
Answers
bobpursley
5 out of 100? That means odds not occuring is 95/5 or 19/1.
Odds
I know that the odds of an earthquake over 5.5 on the Richter scale, occurring within the next second , and in San Francisco Bay Area is about 1 in 1.2 billion.
Based on the average number of larger Earthquakes reported in this area over the last 200 years.
Based on the average number of larger Earthquakes reported in this area over the last 200 years.