Problem
At the Children's Hospital in Seattle there are, on average, 35 births per week. Mother and child stay, on average, two days before they leave the hospital.
At the Swedish Hospital (also in Seattle), the average number of births per week is 160. Mothers and children stay in the hospital two days on average.
a. 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
b. 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
c. 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