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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

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The percent of fat calories that a person in America consumes each day is normally distributed with a mean of about 36 and a standard deviation of 10. Suppose that one individual is randomly chosen. Let X=X= percent of fat calories.

(a) Find the z-score corresponding to 43 percent of fat calories, rounded to 3 decimal places.

(b) Find the probability that the percent of fat calories a person consumes is more than 43.

(c) Shade the area corresponding to this probability in the graph below. (Hint: The x-axis is the z-score. Use your z-score from part (a), rounded to one decimal place).

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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