Suppose that requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets reduces the probability of a motorcycle fatality from 0.3 percent to 0.2 percent over the lifetime of a motorcycle rider and that the cost of lifetime supply of helmets is Rs5000. It is efficient for the government to require riders to wear helmets if human life is valued at ?

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