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If the mortality rate under one month infants in a country is 2.5 per thousand, and the same rate for infants up to two months is 6 per thousand:
A) What is the approximate mortality rate of 1000 infants in the second month of life?
B) What is the probablity that 2500 babies born in that country in one day will reach one month old?
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