Question

5. In one year, there were 125 major new automobile types available. If you look at the miles per gallon (MPG) for these vehicles, the distributions are roughly normal. The means and standard deviations are given by: Mean Standard Deviation City MPG 22.37 4.77 Highway MPG 29.09 5.46 a. The Honda Civic had a rating of 45 highway MPG. What is the probability that your car has a worse highway gas mileage than the Civic? b. The Lincoln Continental had a rating of 17 city MPG. What percent of cars are likely to have a better city gas mileage than the Continental?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "99.82% and 86.99%".

Step-by-step explanation:

In point a:

$=P(X < 45)\\\\= P(Z < \frac{45-29.09}{5.46}) \\\\=P(Z < 2.9139)\\\\=0.9982\\\\=99.82\%$

In point b:

$=P(X >17)\\\\= P(Z > \frac{17-22.37}{4.77}) \\\\=P(Z > -1.1258)\\\\=0.8699\\\\=86.99\%$