Suppose the force acting on a column that helps to support a building is a normally distributed random variable X with mean value 19.0 kips and standard deviation 1.50 kips. Compute the following probabilities by standardizing and then using a standard normal curve table from the Appendix Tables or SALT. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) A USE SALT (a) P(X S 19) 0.5000 (b) P(X S 20.5) 0.8413 (c) P(X 2 11.5) 1.0000

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Suppose the force acting on a column that helps to support a building is a normally distributed random variable X with
mean value 19.0 kips and standard deviation 1.50 kips. Compute the following probabilities by standardizing and then using
a standard normal curve table from the Appendix Tables or SALT. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
n USE SALT
(a) P(X S 19)
0.5000
(b) P(X < 20.5)
0.8413
(c) P(X 2 11.5)
1.0000
(d) P(17 sX S 22)
0.8854
(e) P(IX - 19| s 1)
0.4972
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose the force acting on a column that helps to support a building is a normally distributed random variable X with mean value 19.0 kips and standard deviation 1.50 kips. Compute the following probabilities by standardizing and then using a standard normal curve table from the Appendix Tables or SALT. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) n USE SALT (a) P(X S 19) 0.5000 (b) P(X < 20.5) 0.8413 (c) P(X 2 11.5) 1.0000 (d) P(17 sX S 22) 0.8854 (e) P(IX - 19| s 1) 0.4972
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