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Grace [21]
3 years ago
5

.) Suppose college students produce 650 pounds of solid waste each year, on average. Assume that the distribution of waste per c

ollege student is normal with a mean of 650 pounds and a standard deviation of 20 pounds. What is the probability that a randomly selected student produces either less than 620 or more than 700 pounds of solid waste
Mathematics
1 answer:
amid [387]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

0.073 = 7.3% probability that a randomly selected student produces either less than 620 or more than 700 pounds of solid waste

Step-by-step explanation:

Normal Probability Distribution:

Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean \mu and standard deviation \sigma, the z-score 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 p-value, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

Mean of 650 pounds and a standard deviation of 20 pounds.

This means that \mu = 650, \sigma = 20

What is the probability that a randomly selected student produces either less than 620 or more than 700 pounds of solid waste?

Less than 620:

pvalue of Z when X = 620. So

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

Z = \frac{620 - 650}{20}

Z = -1.5

Z = -1.5 has a pvalue of 0.0668

More than 700:

1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 700. So

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

Z = \frac{700 - 650}{20}

Z = 2.5

Z = 2.5 has a pvalue of 0.9938

1 - 0.9938 = 0.0062

Total:

0.0668 + 0.0062 = 0.073

0.073 = 7.3% probability that a randomly selected student produces either less than 620 or more than 700 pounds of solid waste

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