3. A study conducted at a large hospital found that 27.8 percent of all patients admitted to the hospital's ICU remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours. (A) If 8 patients are selected at random from the ICU patients at the hospital, what is the probability that 2 or fewer of them remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours?   (B) Suppose that 20 patients are selected at random from the ICU patients at the hospital. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the number of these patients who remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours.   (C) Another result of the study was that for elective (non-emergency) admissions to the hospital's ICU, the length of the stay in the ICU had a mean of 18.9 hours and a standard deviation of 3.9 hours. Assuming that the length of stay in the ICU for elective admissions is normally distributed, what proportion of elective admissions remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours?

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3. A study conducted at a large hospital found that 27.8 percent of all patients admitted to the hospital's ICU remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours.

(A) If 8 patients are selected at random from the ICU patients at the hospital, what is the probability that 2 or fewer of them remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours?

 

(B) Suppose that 20 patients are selected at random from the ICU patients at the hospital. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the number of these patients who remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours.

 

(C) Another result of the study was that for elective (non-emergency) admissions to the hospital's ICU, the length of the stay in the ICU had a mean of 18.9 hours and a standard deviation of 3.9 hours. Assuming that the length of stay in the ICU for elective admissions is normally distributed, what proportion of elective admissions remained in the ICU for less than 24 hours?  

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