Engineers want to design seats in commercial aircraft so that they are wide enough to fit 90% of all males. (Accommodating 100

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Engineers want to design seats in commercial aircraft so that they are wide enough to fit 90% of all males. (Accommodating 100

% of males would require very wide seats that would be much too expensive.) Men have hip breadths that are normally distributed with a mean of 14.9 in. and a standard deviation of 0.9 in. Find Upper P 90. That is, find the hip breadth for men that separates the smallest 90% from the largest 10%.

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gladu [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-09T12:00:00+03:00

gladu [14]3 years ago

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Answer:

16.053 inches

Step-by-step explanation:

Many such probability questions are easily answered by a suitable calculator or spreadsheet.

Engineers want to design seats in commercial aircraft so that they are wide enough to fit 90​% of all males.​ (Accommodating 100

Engineers want to design seats in commercial aircraft so that they are wide enough to fit 90% of all males. (Accommodating 100