Americans drank an average of 23.2 gallons of bottled water per capita in 2004. If the standard deviation is 2.7 gallons and the variable is normally distributed, find the find the probability that a randomly selected American drank the following. Enter your answers rounded to at least 4 decimal places. Round intermediate z-value calculations to 2 decimal places. P(Between 16.3 and 27.0 gallons of bottled water)=
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!
Americans drank an average of 23.2 gallons of bottled water per capita in 2004. If the standard deviation is 2.7 gallons and the variable is
- P(Between 16.3 and 27.0 gallons of bottled water)=
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