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DedPeter [7]
3 years ago
5

The length of time a person takes to decide which shoes to purchase is normally distributed with a mean of 8.21 minutes and a st

andard deviation of 1.90. Find the probability that a randomly selected individual will take less than 5 minutes to select a shoe purchase. Is this outcome unusual?
Mathematics
1 answer:
madam [21]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

4.55% probability that a randomly selected individual will take less than 5 minutes to select a shoe purchase.

Since Z > -2 and Z < 2, this outcome is not considered unusual.

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.

If Z \leq 2 or Z \geq 2, the outcome X is considered to be unusual.

In this question:

\mu = 8.21, \sigma = 1.9

Find the probability that a randomly selected individual will take less than 5 minutes to select a shoe purchase.

This is the pvalue of Z when X = 5. So

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

Z = \frac{5 - 8.21}{1.9}

Z = -1.69

Z = -1.69 has a pvalue of 0.0455.

4.55% probability that a randomly selected individual will take less than 5 minutes to select a shoe purchase.

Since Z > -2 and Z < 2, this outcome is not considered unusual.

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