SOLUTION: a mean of 210.0 case of low birth weight each year.
1. Find the mean number of low birth weight babies born each day?
2. Find the probability that on a given day, there is
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1. Find the mean number of low birth weight babies born each day?
2. Find the probability that on a given day, there is
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Question 377456: a mean of 210.0 case of low birth weight each year.
1. Find the mean number of low birth weight babies born each day?
2. Find the probability that on a given day, there is more than 1 baby born with a low birth weight?
3. Is it unusual to have more than 1 low birth weight baby born in a day? Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1. 210.0/365 = 0.5453, to 4 decimal places.
2. Here , and we use the Poisson distribution. Then .
3. Based on the chances we obtained in 2., 1 out of 10 babies is born with low weight.
