A fitness company is building a 20-story high-rise. Architects building the high-rise know that women working for the company have weights that are normally distributed with a mean of 143 lb and a standard deviation of 29 lb, and men working for the company have weights that are normally distributed with a mean of 180 lb and a standard deviation or 34 lb. You need to design an elevator that will safely carry 14 people. Assuming a worst case scenario of 14 male passengers, find the maximum total allowable weight if we want a 0.999 probability that this maximum will not be exceeded when 14 males are randomly selected. maximum weight =
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
A fitness company is building a 20-story high-rise. Architects building the high-rise know that women working for the company have weights that are
maximum weight =
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