In a certain city, 5 percent of all drivers have expired licenses and 10 percent have an unpaid parking ticket. If these events are independent, what is the probability that a driver has both an expired license and an unpaid parking ticket?
A).010
B).005
C).001
D)Cannot be determined

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Since the events are independent, we can simply multiply their probabilities to find the probability of both events occurring:
P(expired license and unpaid parking ticket) = P(expired license) * P(unpaid parking ticket) = 0.05 * 0.1 = 0.005. Therefore, the answer is choice B).

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