A certain rare form of cancer occurs in 37 children in a million, so its probability is 0.000037. In the city of Normalville there are 74,090 children. A Poisson distribution will be used to approximate the probability that the number of cases of the disease in Normalville children is more than 2. Find the mean of the appropriate Poisson distribution (the mean number of cases in groups of 74,090 children).

Mean = 2.7

In a group of 74090 we would expect about 3 (rounding to nearest whole number) children with the rare form of cancer.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that the rate of cancer in children is 37 children in 1 million. So the probability of cancer in a child is P(C) = 0.000037

Poisson distribution is used to approximate the number of cases of diseases and we have to find what will be the mean number of cases for 74,090.

In simple words we have to find the expected number of children with cancer in a group of 74,090 children.

The mean value of expected value can be obtained by multiplying the probability with the sample size. So, in this case multiplying probability of child having a cancer with total group size will give us the expected or mean number of children in the group with cancer.

Mean = E(x) = P(C) * Group size

Mean = 0.000037 x 74090

Mean = 2.7

This means in a group of 74090 we would expect about 3 (rounding to nearest whole number) children with the rare form of cancer.

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step-by-step explanation:

your exact question is kind of difficult to understand, so maybe an example will explain what you're supposed to do? i'll work through the first problem on the worksheet.

suppose you have a tray of 652 brownies, and you have 5 friends that you want to feed without picking favorites. how many brownies can you dole out to each of your friends in equal amounts? how many will be left over for you to eat?

what you're doing here is finding a way to arrange the number 652 as the sum of integer multiple of 5 and some remainder:

here ("q" for quotient) is the number of brownies each of your friends get, and is the remainder. that's the basic idea behind division.

we break up the number 652 into parts so that the leading digit stands on its own:

652 = 600 + 52

first we check if it's possible to hand out exactly 100 brownies to each friend. with 5 friends, this means we want to know if we can take out 500 brownies from the tray. we can do this 1 time because we have 600 brownies to take from, and when we do that we're left with 100 + 52 brownies to divvy up. so we know that

652 = 1*500 + 152

next we want to know if it's possible to hand out exactly 10 brownies per friend. if we can, we have to remove 50 brownies from the tray each time until we can't. we have 152 brownies left, and we know that 3(50) = 150, so

152 = 3*50 + 2

now we have 2 brownies left in the tray. is it possible to hand 1 out to each of your 5 friends? no, you'd need a minimum of 5 brownies to do that. so the last 2 are yours.

putting everything together, we found that

652 = 1*500 + 3*50 + 2

and we can rearrange this to write

652 = 5*100 + 5*30 + 2

652 = 5(100 + 30) + 2

652 = 5*130 + 2

so and .

you might be more accustomed to the table depicting the algorithm. that's just a compact way of organizing what we've done above. you can consult the image i've attached below.