A study of able-bodied female students at the University of Illinois found that their times for the mile run were approximately normal with mean 7.11 minutes and standard deviation 0.74 minutes. (a) Choose a student at random from this group and call her time for the mile X. What is the probability her mile run time was no more than 6 minutes? Sketch a graph of this situation and shade the appropriate region. (b) What is the probability that exactly 2 out of 5 randomly selected females in the study will run the mile in less than 6 minutes?

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A study of able-bodied female students at the University of Illinois found that their times for the mile run were approximately normal with mean 7.11 minutes and standard deviation 0.74 minutes.

(a) Choose a student at random from this group and call her time for the mile X. What is the probability her mile run time was no more than 6 minutes? Sketch a graph of this situation and shade the appropriate region.


(b) What is the probability that exactly 2 out of 5 randomly selected females in the study will run the mile in less than 6 minutes?

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