The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.8 and 5.87 years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if possible. a. The mean of this distribution is b. The standard deviation is c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old?

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The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.8 and 5.87
years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if
possible.
a. The mean of this distribution is
b. The standard deviation is
c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old?
d. The probability that the child will be between 5.1 and 5.7 years old is
e. If such a child is at the 8th percentile, how old is that child?
years old.
Transcribed Image Text:The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.8 and 5.87 years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if possible. a. The mean of this distribution is b. The standard deviation is c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old? d. The probability that the child will be between 5.1 and 5.7 years old is e. If such a child is at the 8th percentile, how old is that child? years old.
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The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.8 and 5.87
years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if
possible.
a. The mean of this distribution is
b. The standard deviation is
c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old?
d. The probability that the child will be between 5.1 and 5.7 years old is
e. If such a child is at the 8th percentile, how old is that child?
years old.
Transcribed Image Text:The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.8 and 5.87 years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if possible. a. The mean of this distribution is b. The standard deviation is c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old? d. The probability that the child will be between 5.1 and 5.7 years old is e. If such a child is at the 8th percentile, how old is that child? years old.
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