An engineer is going to redesign an ejection seat for an airplane. The seat was designed for pilots weighing between 120 lb and 181 lb. The new population of pilots has normally distributed weights with a mean of 129 lb and a standard deviation of 31.8 lb. a. If a pilot is randomly selected, find the probability that his weight is betwee 140 lb and 191 lb. The probability is approximately .5776 b. I 34 different pilots are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean weight is between 140 lb and 191 lb. The probability is approximately ____
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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