A market research company employs a large number of typists to enter data into a computer. The time it takes for new typists to learn the computer system is known to have a normal distribution with a mean of 100 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. What is the proportion of new typists who take more than 2 hours to learn the computer system?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
A market research company employs a large number of typists to enter data into a
computer. The time it takes for new typists to learn the computer system is known to
have a
minutes. What is the proportion of new typists who take more than 2 hours to learn the
computer system?
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