Question

New york city hospital analyzed their patient data in the icu and categorized patients into two types: short-term and long-term. the standard quantities of labor and materials for each type of patient for 2011 are:

Answer 1

To determine if the collective hospital stay for 80 women is more than a year, a conservative estimate using an average stay of five days indicates they spent a total of 400 days in the hospital, which exceeds the 365 days in a year.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question pertains to analyzing the cumulative duration of hospital stays for a group of 80 women, whose individual stays averaged more than five days. To determine if their total time in the hospital exceeded a year, we consider a year to be 365 days.

Since the average stay is more than five days, let us conservatively use five days as the average stay duration for calculation. Multiplying the average stay duration by the number of women gives us:

• 5 days * 80 women = 400 days

Since 400 days is greater than a year (365 days), we can confidently say that, collectively, these women spent more than a year in the hospital.