EBK FINITE MATHEMATICS AND CALCULUS WIT
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Author: RITCHEY
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Chapter 8.4, Problem 42E
Births In Clay County, North Carolina, 54 out of 84 births in 2012, or about 64%, were male, while in Macon County, 20 I out of 346 births, or about 58%, were male. Source: North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics.
- (a) Which of these two events seems less likely to you? Now compute the probability of at least 54 out of 84 births being male, and at least 201 out of 346 births being male, assuming male and female births are equally likely. Does this surprise you?
- (b) Explain why the Macon County births are more unusual, even though the Clay County births have a higher percentage of males.
- (c) Explain why, in part (a), we calculated the probability of at least 54 births out of 84 being male, rather than the probability that exactly 54 births out of 84 are male.
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