Suppose that the probability of giving birth to a male is 0.5. Out of 1000 families with five children, how many would you expect to have exactly two boys?

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  1. Suppose that the probability of giving birth to a male is 0.5. Out of 1000 families with five children, how many would you expect to have exactly two boys?
  2. The height, X, of a randomly selected student is normally distributed with mean 165 and variance 25. A random sample of 10 students were selected. What is the probability that the mean height of the sample of 10 students will be less than 160?
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