The luggage weight for individual air travelers on some specific route have a mean of 80 pounds and a standard deviation of 20 pounds. The plane is considered to be fully booked when it holds 100 passengers. The pilot insists on loading an extra 400 pounds of fuel whenever the total luggage weight exceeds 8300 pounds. On what percentage of the flights will she end up having the extra fuel loaded?
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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