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-In a recent year, there were 60 accidents in commercial aviation among major airlines over 8.1 million departures. Find the accident rate in units of accidents per 100,000 departures.

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To find the accident rate per 100,000 departures, divide the number of accidents (60) by the number of departures (8.1 million) and then multiply by 100,000. This calculation gives $ \frac{60}{8,100,000} \times 100,000 = 0.74 $ accidents per 100,000 departures.

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