The defect length of a corrosion defect in a pressurized steel pipe is normally distributed with mean value 28 mm and standard deviation 7.7 mm. a. What is the probability that defect length is at most 20 mm?(round your answers to three decimal places) b. What is the 75th percentile of the defect length distribution? ( ( round your answer to one decimal place)
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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The defect length of a corrosion defect in a pressurized steel pipe is
a. What is the
b. What is the 75th percentile of the defect length distribution? ( ( round your answer to one decimal place)
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