According to a study done by UCB students, the height for Martian adult males is normally distributed with an average of 65 inches and a standard deviation of 2.5 inches. Suppose one Martian adult male is randomly chosen. Let X = height of the individual. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible. %3D a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N( b. Find the probability that the person is between 62.5 and 64.5 inches. C. The middle 20% of Martian heights lie between what two numbers? Low: inches
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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