The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.95 and 5.95 years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if possible. a. The mean of this distribution is 5.45 b. The standard deviation is 0.2945 c. The probability that the the child will be older than 5 years old? d. The probability that the child will be between 5.35 and 5.55 years old is e. If such a child is at the 46th percentile, how old is that child? years old.
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!
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