In: Statistics and Probability
The accompanying table describes results from groups of 10 births from 10 different sets of parents. The random variable x represents the number of girls among 10 children. Use the range rule of thumb to determine whether 1 girl in 10 births is a significantly low number of girls.
x P(x)
0 0.004
1 0.015
2 0.037
3 0.113
4 0.206
5 0.239
6 0.204
7 0.116
8 0.038
9 0.019
10 0.009