The Boeing 157-200 ER aircraft carries 200 passengers and has doors with a height of 72 inches. Male heights are normally distributed with a mean of 67.4 inches and a standard deviation of 3.8 inches. 1. If a male passenger is selected at random, find the probability that he can pass through the door without leaning over. Enter your answer to four decimal places. 2. If half of the 200 passengers are men, find the probability that the average height of the 100 men is less than 72 inches. Enter your answer to four 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!
The Boeing 157-200 ER aircraft carries 200 passengers and has doors with a height of 72 inches. Male heights are
1. If a male passenger is selected at random, find the probability that he can pass through the door without leaning over. Enter your answer to four decimal places.
2. If half of the 200 passengers are men, find the probability that the average height of the 100 men is less than 72 inches. Enter your answer to four decimal places.
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