Pregnant and breastfeeding women should eat at least 12 ounces of fish and seafo
ID: 3020556 • Letter: P
Question
Pregnant and breastfeeding women should eat at least 12 ounces of fish and seafood per week to ensure their babies optimal brain development, according to a coalition of top scientist from private groups and federal agencies. A nutritionist wants to know whether pregnant women are eating at least 12 ounces of fish per week. To do so, she obtains a list of the 340 members of a local chain of prenatal fitness clubs and mails a questionnaire to 60 of these women selected at random. Only 21 questionnaires were sent back.
Explanation / Answer
the aims is ti check the diet of the pregnant women and whether they are taking fish as a diet or not
questionaire is given to 60 out of 340 pregrant ladies
which means 60/340 = 17.6%
out og the 60 only 21 comes up which meakes it to the 30%
so the overall conclusion will be 0.176*0.30 = 0.05 = 5% women take fish as a diet.