The Fullerton Arboretum is a wonderful place to visit. It is located on the CSUF campus. The amount of time spent at the Arboretum is normally distributed with a mean of 70 minutes and a standard deviation of 17 minutes. Suppose one person at the Arboretum is randomly selected. Let X = the amount of time that person spent at the Fullerton Arboretum. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible. a. What is the distribution of X? X - N( b. Find the probability that a randomly selected person at the Fullerton Arboretum stays longer then 84 minutes. c. The school is considering offering a discount for the 8% of their patrons who spend the least time at the Arboretum. What is the longest amount of time a patron can spend at the Arboretum and still receive the discount? minutes. d. Find the Inter Quartile Range (IQR) for time spent at the Arboretum. Q1: minutes Q3: minutes IQR: minutes
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Solution:
X be the amount of time a person spends at the Fullerton Arboretum.
Also, it is given that the amount of time spent at the Arboretum is normally distributed with a mean of 70 minutes and standard deviation of 17 minutes.
Part a)
X is normally distributed with mean ()70 minutes and standard deviation ()17 minutes.
X ~ N(70, 17)
Part b)
The probability that a randomly selected person at the Fullerton Arboretum stays longer than 84 minutes is required.
That is, P(X > 84) is required.
It can be easily found using MS-Excel as follows:
Type =1-NORMDIST(84, 70, 17, 1) and hit enter. It gives 0.205103.
Rounding it to 4 decimal places, it becomes 0.2051.
Thus, the probability that a randomly selected person at the Fullerton Arboretum stays longer than 84 minutes is 0.2051.
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