A population is normally distributed with p= 200 and o= 20. a. Find the probability that a value randomly selected from this population will have a value greater than 240. b. Find the probability that a value randomly selected from this population will have a value less than 185. C. Find the probability that a value randomly selected from this population will have a value between 185 and 240. : Click the icon to view the standard normal table. a. P(x > 240)= (Round to four decimal places as needed.) b. P(x< 185) = (Round to four decimal places as needed.) c. P(185
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!
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