Suppose That Weight of Adolescents Is Being Studied by a Health

question 66

Multiple Choice

Suppose that weight of adolescents is being studied by a health organization and that the accompanying tables describes the probability distribution for three randomly selected adolescents, where x is the number who are considered morbidly obese. Is it unusual to have no obese subjects
Among three randomly selected adolescents? $$\begin{array} { c | c } \mathrm { x } & \mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) \\\hline 0 & 0.111 \\1 & 0.215 \\2 & 0.450 \\3 & 0.224\end{array}$$

• A) Yes
• B) No

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