The babies born in singleton births in the United States have birth weights that are approximately normally
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The babies born in singleton births in the United States have birth weights that are approximately normally distributed with mean 3.296 kg and standard deviation 0.560 kg (Martin et al. 2011).
a. What is the probability of a baby being born weighing more than 5 kg?
b. What is the probability of a baby being born weighing between 3 kg and 4 kg?
c. What fraction of babies is more than 1.5 standard deviations from the mean in either direction?
d. What fraction of babies is more than 1.5 kg from the mean in either direction?
e. If you took a random sample of 10 babies, what is the probability that their mean weight Y¯ Y̅ would be greater than 3.5 kg?
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The Analysis Of Biological Data
ISBN: 9781319226237
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Authors: Michael C. Whitlock, Dolph Schluter
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