Twenty percent of babies in a particular city are born by a surgical procedure called a Cesarean
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a. Explain in words what X is in this situation and what values it can take.
b. Why is this a Geometric distribution situation? What is the parameter?
c. What is the probability that you have to survey parents of at least 5 babies until you find the first one not born by C-section?
d. Given that you have to survey parents of more than 1 baby to find the first one not born by C-section, what is the probability that you have to survey at least 5 parents of babies?
e. What is the probability that you must survey between 4 and 6 (inclusive) parents of babies to find one that was not born by C-section?
f. What is the expected value of X?
g. What is the variance of X?
h. Show the labeled graph of the mass for this story.
i. Show the labeled graph of the CDF for this story. Distribution
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Introduction to Probability
ISBN: 978-0716771098
1st edition
Authors: Mark Daniel Ward, Ellen Gundlach
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