Does secondhand smoke increase the risk of a low birthweight? a baby is considered have low birthweight if he/she weighs less than 5.5 pounds at birth. according to the national center of health statistics, about 7.8% of all babies born in the u. s. are categorized as low birthweight. suspecting that the national percentage is higher than 7.8%, researchers randomly select 1,200 babies whose mothers had extensive exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancy and find that 10.4% of the sampled babies are categorized as low birth weight. let p be the proportion of all babies in the united states who are categorized

1) u.s. real gdp is substantially higher today than it was 60 years ago. what does this tell us, and what does it not tell us, about the well-being of u.s. residents? what are the limitations of the gdp as a measure of economic well-being? given the limitations, why is gdp usually regarded as the best single measure of a society’s economic well-being? 2) what is an intermediate good? how does an intermediate good differ from a final good? explain why it is the case that the value of intermediate goods produced and sold during the year is not included directly as part of gdp, but the value of intermediate goods produced and not sold is included directly as part of gdp.