Final answer:
Given each of the 80 women stayed more than five days, multiplying by the minimum stay (5 days) gives us 400 days, which exceeds the number of days in a year (365), indicating their total time spent in the hospital likely exceeds a year.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question involves determining if the collective inpatient time for a group of 80 women exceeds a year, given that each had an average stay of more than five days. To find out whether their total stay is more than a year, we can calculate the total days spent by multiplying the number of women by the average length of stay, then comparing that to the number of days in a year.
There are 365 days in a non-leap year. If each woman stayed more than five days, the total days would be 80 women * 5 days/woman, which equals 400 days. Since this is already greater than the number of days in a year and we know that each stay was more than five days, this means the collective time is indeed likely to be more than a year.