Question: Your age and using your own eggs are important IVF success factors to consider. While younger women have higher chances of IVF success, factors that

Your age and using your own eggs are important IVF success factors to consider. While younger women have higher chances of IVF success, factors that reduce the chances of IVF success include being an older woman with fewer eggs and the lower quality of an older woman's eggs.

In fact, the live birth IVF success rate for women under 35 who start an IVF cycle is 40 percent. However, women over age 42 have a 4 percent success rate.

One IVF clinic suggests that they have 434 successful births per year.

a. How many successful births can the clinic expect in a 3 month period?

b. What is the standard deviation for the number of successful births can the clinic expect in a 1 month period?

c. What is the probability of fewer than 30 births in a month?

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