he average THC content of marijuana sold on the street is 10.3%. Suppose the THC content is normally distributed with standard deviation of 2%. Let X be the THC content for a randomly selected bag of marijuana that is sold on the street. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(___,___) b. Find the probability that a randomly selected bag of marijuana sold on the street will have a THC content greater than 12.3. c. Find the 62nd percentile for this distribution.
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
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The average THC content of marijuana sold on the street is 10.3%. Suppose the THC content is
a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(___,___)
b. Find the
c. Find the 62nd percentile for this distribution.
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