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godhardonsomu | 13:57 Fri 07th Oct 2016 | Science
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The weight of babies at birth ranges from 3kgs to 10kgs. What is the probability that a woman whose weight is 130kgs will give birth to a baby weighing 2kgs
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0% given the parameters of your question
Yes 0% on your figures (which are rubbish quite frankly) and lots of babies are born under 3 kgs. As for 10kgs that would hit worldwide news
the probability of predictability of any pregnancy is zero.
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3 to 10kgs ( notwithstanding the impossibility ) is a spread around (3+10)/2 kgs
so you have to decide whether 3-10 kg is normally distributed ( yes )
and whether the spread respresents one or two standard deviations

I think two

so the SD is (6.5 minus 3)/2 or 1.75

2kg is within three SD and so the chance is around 0.3% - three in a thousand

this is course work - read your course notes !
You haven't taken the mother's weight into account though PP- have you assumed it a red herring as it may well be, or do larger mums tend to have larger babies?

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