8. In order to qualify for the year-end tennis tournament,

3/4= j-1/2
first to add 1/2 to both sides to solve for j
3/4 + 1/2= j
second you find a common denominator in order to add 3/4 and 1/2, the common denominator would be 4, you would have to change 3/4 at all because the denominator is already 4 but in order to make the denominator of 1/2, 4 you would have to multiply both the denominator and numerator by 2 so
3/4 + 2/4 = 5/4
so 5/4 =j

to check your answer you plug 5/4 in for j
3/4 = 5/4 -1/2
again you need to find a common denominator between 5/4 and 1/2 which again would be 4, and again you wouldn't change 5/4 but you would multiply both the numerator and the denominator of 1/2 so
3/4= 5/4-2/4
5-2= 3 and you would keep the 4 so
5/4 - 2/4 = 3/4

so j = 5/4

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3 years ago

SAT scores are normed so that, in any year, the mean of the verbal or math test should be 500 and the standard deviation 100. as

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Answer:

a) $P(X>625)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}>\frac{625-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z>\frac{625-500}{100})=P(Z>1.25)$

$P(Z>1.25)=1-P(Z$

b) $P(400$

$P(-1$

c) $z=-0.842$

And if we solve for a we got

$a=500 -0.842*100=415.8$

So the value of height that separates the bottom 20% of data from the top 80% is 415.8.

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".

Part a

Let X the random variable that represent the SAT scores of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

$X \sim N(500,100)$

Where $\mu=500$ and $\sigma=100$

We are interested on this probability

$P(X>625)$

And the best way to solve this problem is using the normal standard distribution and the z score given by:

$z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}$

If we apply this formula to our probability we got this:

$P(X>625)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}>\frac{625-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z>\frac{625-500}{100})=P(Z>1.25)$

And we can find this probability using the complement rule and with the normal standard table or excel:

$P(Z>1.25)=1-P(Z$

Part b

We are interested on this probability

$P(400$

And the best way to solve this problem is using the normal standard distribution and the z score given by:

$z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}$

If we apply this formula to our probability we got this:

$P(400$

And we can find this probability with this difference:

$P(-1$

And in order to find these probabilities we can find tables for the normal standard distribution, excel or a calculator.

$P(-1$

Part c

For this part we want to find a value a, such that we satisfy this condition:

$P(X>a)=0.8$ (a)

$P(X$ (b)

Both conditions are equivalent on this case. We can use the z score again in order to find the value a.

As we can see on the figure attached the z value that satisfy the condition with 0.2 of the area on the left and 0.8 of the area on the right it's z=-0.842. On this case P(Z<-0.842)=0.2 and P(Z>-0.842)=0.8

If we use condition (b) from previous we have this:

$P(X$

$P(z$

But we know which value of z satisfy the previous equation so then we can do this:

$z=-0.842$

And if we solve for a we got

$a=500 -0.842*100=415.8$

So the value of height that separates the bottom 20% of data from the top 80% is 415.8.

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3 years ago