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At the Children’s Hospital in Seattle there are, on average, 60 births per week. Mother and child stay, on average, one day before they leave the hospital. At the Swedish Hospital (also in Seattle), the average number of births per week is 210. Mothers and children stay in the hospital one day on average.

How many new mothers, on average, are staying at the Children’s Hospital? (Round your intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places and final answer to 1 decimal place.)

Number of New Mothers: ____

How many new mothers, on average, are staying at the Swedish Hospital? (Round your intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places and final answer to 1 decimal place.)

Number of New mothers: _____

The directors of the two hospitals are negotiating unifying the maternity wards of the two hospitals. They believe that by doing so they will be able to reduce the number of new mothers staying in the unified ward. How many new mothers would be staying, on average, in the unified ward? (Assume that the average number of births and the length of stay of the new mothers will not change.) (Round your intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places and final answer to 1 decimal place.)

Number of new Mothers: _____

Solution

Solution:

First question:

Mother and chid stay = 1/7

No. of new Mothers in Children\'s hospital=60*1/7=8.6 new mother per week

Second question:

Mother and child stay=1/7

No. of new mother in Swedish Hospital=210*1/7=30

Third question:

When two the wards are unified

Total no of births per week = 270

And on average mother and child stay=1/7

No. of new mothers=270*1/7=38.6 new mothers per week

this is higher then the avergaes before.

So, no , the unified wards will not decrease the no . of new mother staying on an average.