Low-birth-weight babies Researchers in Norway analyzed data on the birth weights of 400,000 newborns over a 6-year

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Low-birth-weight babies Researchers in Norway analyzed data on the birth weights of 400,000 newborns over a 6-year period. The distribution of birth weights is Normal with a mean of 3668 grams and a standard deviation of 511 grams.16 Babies that weigh less than 2500 grams at birth are classified as “low birth weight.”

(a) What percent of babies will be identified as low birth weight? Show your work.

(b) Find the quartiles of the birth weight distribution.

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The Practice Of Statistics

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Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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