The average movie ticket cost $18.76 and the population standard deviation is $2.51. Assume movie ticket costs are normally distributed. What is the probability that a random selected ticket will cost at least $20.50?
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!
Given Information:
Mean
Standard deviation
To find the probability that a random selected ticket will cost at least $20.50:
Z-score is a measure which tells how many standard deviations away a data value is from the mean and is given by the formula:
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