Answer:
a) The mean is
b) The standard deviation is
Step-by-step explanation:
Normal Probability Distribution:
Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.
In a set with mean and standard deviation
, the zscore of a measure X is given by:
The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.
The probability a student selected at random takes at least 55.50 minutes to complete the examination equals 0.6915.
This means that when X = 55.5, Z has a pvalue of 1 - 0.6915 = 0.3085. This means that when
So
The probability a student selected at random takes no more than 71.52 minutes to complete the examination equals 0.8997.
This means that when X = 71.52, Z has a pvalue of 0.8997. This means that when
So
Since we also have that
Question
The mean is
The standard deviation is