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ISBN: 9780134685168

Author: STEPHAN

Publisher: YUZU

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Chapter 6, Problem 7PS

In 2015, the per capita consumption of bottled water in the United States was reported to be 36.2 gallons.

Assume that the per capita consumption of bottled water in the United States is approximately normally with a mean of 36.2 gallons and a standard deviation of 10 gallons.

a. What is the probability that someone in the United States Consumed more than 33 gallons of bottled water in 2015?

b. What is the probability that someone in the United States Consumed between 10 and 20 gallons of bottled water in 2015?

c. What is the probability that someone in the United States consumed less than 10 bottled water in 2015?

d. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the United States Consumed less than how many gallons of bottled water?

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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