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The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that in 2007, there were 7,624 incidents of hate crimes that had a bias motivation based on race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, or disability. Of these incidents, 6,965 were committed by a “known offender,” where one or more attributes is known about the offender. If one incident is selected at random, find the probability that the incident was committed by a known offender.

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Define P(E)P(E) to be the probability of an event EE where

P(E)=Number of favorable outcomes in ETotal number of outcomes=n(E)n(S)P(E)=\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes in $E$}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}=\frac{n(E)}{n(S)}

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