SOLUTION: Calculate the expected number of infants needing neonatal intensive care in a hospital if the historic rate is 5 per 1000 births, and you expect 575 births this year.

Question 1126880: Calculate the expected number of infants needing neonatal intensive care in a hospital if the historic rate is 5 per 1000 births, and you expect 575 births this year.
Answer by ikleyn(52943) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Use the proportion


 = .


From the proportion,  x =  = 2.875.


You can round it up and estimate "the expected number of infants needing neonatal intensive care in a hospital" as 3.

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