The time needed to complete a final examination in a particular college course is normallydistributed with a mean of 80 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. Answer thefollowing questions.a. what is the probability of completing the exam in one hour or less?b. what is the probability that a student will complete the exam in more than 60 minutesbut less than 75 minutes?
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!
The time needed to complete a final examination in a particular college course is normally
distributed with a mean of 80 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. Answer the
following questions.
a. what is the
b. what is the probability that a student will complete the exam in more than 60 minutes
but less than 75 minutes?
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