XSORT Gender Selection MicroSort’s XSORT gender-selection technique is designed to increase the likelihood that a baby will be a girl. In updated results (as of this writing) of the XSORT gender-selection technique, 945 births consisted of 879 baby girls and 66 baby boys (based on data from the Genetics & IVF Institute). In analyzing these results, assume that the XSORT method has no effect so that boys and girls are equally likely. Find the probability of getting 879 or less girls in 945 births.

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XSORT Gender Selection MicroSort’s XSORT gender-selection technique is designed to increase the likelihood that a baby will be a girl. In updated results (as of this writing) of the XSORT gender-selection technique, 945 births consisted of 879 baby girls and 66 baby boys (based on data from the Genetics & IVF Institute). In analyzing these results, assume that the XSORT method has no effect so that boys and girls are equally likely.

Find the probability of getting 879 or less girls in 945 births.  

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