Given a math problem with context and a question and 5 answer choices, the task is to provide the correct answer choice based on the problem. You must choose one of the given answer choices by letter: a, b, c, d, or e; anything else is invalid.
Q: Problem: in a certain animal population, for each of the first 3 months of life, the probability that an animal will die during that month is 1 / 4. for a group of 200 newborn members of the population, approximately how many would be expected to survive the first 3 months of life ?
Options: a. 40, b. 46, c. 52, d. 62, e. 85
A:
e