9. Rates would be 6,954.2/698,076 x 100,000= 996.2 for Jefferson County and 2,164.8/266,343 100,000 = 812.8 for Fayette County. Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) makes a lot more sense. Exhibit F.1 reports 7,194 actual deaths in Jefferson County and 2,077 actual deaths in Fayette County. The SMR for Jefferson County would be (? / ? ) ? = ?. The SMR for Fayette County would be ? /? ? = ?. The rule is always "the lower the better." Since Fayette County has a lower SMR than Jefferson County, this means that Fayette County has _____ using indirect age adjustment. Since both rates are lower than 100, both counties have lower rates than the entire state of Kentucky because Kentucky rates were used as the standard