Question

In a sample of 50,001st born babies eight were found to have a certain syndrome. Find the empirical probability that a family's first child will be born with this syndrome

Answer 1

Answer:

Empirical Probability that a family's first child will be born with this syndrome is 0.0002.

Step-by-step explanation:

Empirical Probability of an event E is defined

$\textrm{P(E)} = \frac{\textrm{Number of times the event actually happens}}{\textrm{ Total number of times the experiment performed }}$

Let E: Event that the child born has a certain syndrome.

Now here, total number of times experiments performed  = 50,000

The number of favorable outcome = 1

$\implies P(E) = \frac{1}{50,00} = 0.0002$

Hence, here the Empirical Probability that a family's first child will be born with this syndrome is 0.0002.