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Elza [17]
3 years ago
8

The ages of adults in a certain community follow a normal distribution with mean 38 and standard deviation 6. The random variabl

e x represents the age of a randomly-selected adult from this community. Given that P(32 < x < a) = .0590, what is the value of a?
Mathematics
1 answer:
nataly862011 [7]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

a = 33.32

Step-by-step explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean \mu and standard deviation \sigma, the zscore of a measure X is given by:

Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}

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.

In this problem, we have that:

\mu = 38, \sigma = 6

P(32 < x < a) = .0590

This is the pvalue of Z when X = a subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 32.

X = 32

Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}

Z = \frac{32 - 38}{6}

Z = -1

Z = -1 has a pvalue of 0.1587

X = a

p - 0.1587 = 0.0590

p = 0.0590 + 0.1587

p = 0.2177

So when X = a, Z has a pvalue of 0.2177. So when X = a, Z = -0.78.

Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}

-0.78 = \frac{X - 38}{6}

X - 38 = -0.78*6

X = 33.32

So a = 33.32

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