16. Social Skills Bob reasons that when he asks a woman for a date, she can accept or reject his request, so he assumes that he has a 0.5 probability of getting a date. If his assumption is correct, what is the probability of getting five rejections when Bob asks five different women for dates? Is that result the correct probability that Bob will get five rejections when he asks five different women for dates? Why or why not?

166 Chapter 4 Probability In Exercises 17–20, use the data in the following table, which summarizes results from 985 pedestrian deaths that were caused by accidents (based on data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).

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