Answer: 5.37
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x = ACT scores.
Given: ACT scores have a mean of 20.8 and 9 percent of the scores are above 28. The scores have a distribution that is approximately normal.
i.e. P(X>28)=0.09 (i)
Now,
(ii)
One -tailed z value for p-value of 0.09 =1.3408 [By z-table]
From (i) and (ii)
Hence, the standard deviation = 5.37
Answer:
Assume x is directly proportional to y :
when y is 9, x is 2:
substitute to find value of k :
Therefore, equation is:
Answer:
And if we solve for a we got
So the value of height that separates the bottom 10% (Fastest 10%) of data from the top 90% is 393.2.
so if the time is 393.2 or lower a boy would earn a certificate of recognition from the fitness association
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".
Solution to the problem
Let X the random variable that represent the time for this event of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:
Where and
NOTE: For this case the fastest 10% is on the lower tail of the distribution
For this part we want to find a value a, such that we satisfy this condition:
(a)
(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 0.1 of the area on the left and 0.9 of the area on the right it's z=-1.28. On this case P(Z<-1.28)=0.1 and P(z>-1.28)=0.9
If we use condition (b) from previous we have this:
But we know which value of z satisfy the previous equation so then we can do this:
And if we solve for a we got
So the value of height that separates the bottom 10% (Fastest 10%) of data from the top 90% is 393.2.
so if the time is 393.2 or lower a boy would earn a certificate of recognition from the fitness association