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The Dahlia Medical Center has 30 labor rooms, 15 combination labor and delivery rooms, 3 delivery rooms, and 1 special delivery room reserved for complicated births. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about 1 hour in a delivery room.
During an exceptionally busy 3-day period, 109 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. Sixty babies were born in separate labor amid delivery rooms, 45 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms, amid only 4 babies required a labor room amid the complicated delivery room. Which of the facilities (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery rooms, or delivery rooms) had the greatest utilization rate?
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