The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 267 days and a standard deviation of 15 days. Let X be the length of a randomly recorded pregnancy in the village. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N (,) Please show the following answers to 4 decimal places. If a pregnancy randomly chosen in the village, find the probability that it lasted less than 244 days. If a pregnancy randomly chosen in the village, find the probability that it lasted between 290 and 298 days. Please show the following answer to a whole day. The 72nd percentile pregnancy length in this village is ___________ days.
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 lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are
- What is the distribution of X? X ~ N (,)
Please show the following answers to 4 decimal places.
- If a pregnancy randomly chosen in the village, find the
probability that it lasted less than 244 days. - If a pregnancy randomly chosen in the village, find the probability that it lasted between 290 and 298 days.
Please show the following answer to a whole day.
- The 72nd percentile pregnancy length in this village is ___________ days.
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