The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 270.2 days and a standard deviation of 17.8 days. In what range would you expect to find the middle 98% of most pregnancies? Between_______ and__________ . Enter your answers as numbers. Your answers should be accurate to 1 decimal places.
The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 270.2 days and a standard deviation of 17.8 days. In what range would you expect to find the middle 98% of most pregnancies? Between_______ and__________ . Enter your answers as numbers. Your answers should be accurate to 1 decimal places.
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Chapter10: Statistics
Section10.3: Measures Of Spread
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The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are
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Between_______ and__________ .
Enter your answers as numbers. Your answers should be accurate to 1 decimal places.
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Let X be the length of pregnancies in a small rural village.
From the given information, X follows normal distribution with mean µ=270.2 days and a standard deviation σ=17.8 days.
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