Suppose That Weight of Adolescents Is Being Studied by a Health

question 29

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? $$\begin{array} { c | c } x & P ( x ) \\\hline 0 & 0.111 \\\hline 1 & 0.215 \\\hline 2 & 0.450 \\\hline 3 & 0.224\end{array}$$

• A)No
• B)Yes

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