A survey among adults found that people keep their cell phone an average of 1.55 years before buying a new one. Assume that the lengths of time people keep their phones are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 0.24 years. What is the probability a randomly selected adult will keep their cell phone for less than one year before buying a new one? 0.4090 0.1587 0.0110 0.9890
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 survey among adults found that people keep their cell phone an average of 1.55 years before buying a new one. Assume that the lengths of time people keep their phones are
0.4090
0.1587
0.0110
0.9890
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