Nick has collected data to find that the body weights of the forty students in a class has a normal distribution. What is the probability that a randomly selected student has a body weight of greater than 169 pounds if the mean is 142 pounds and the standard deviation is 9 pounds? Use the empirical rule. Provide the final answer as a percent rounded to two decimal places.
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!
Nick has collected data to find that the body weights of the forty students in a class has a
- Provide the final answer as a percent rounded to two decimal places.
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