Mathematical Statistics with Applications

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ISBN: 9780495110811

Author: Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 6.5, Problem 42E

A type of elevator has a maximum weight capacity Y₁, which is normally distributed with mean 5000 pounds and standard deviation 300 pounds. For a certain building equipped with this type of elevator, the elevator’s load, Y₂, is a normally distributed random variable with mean 4000 pounds and standard deviation 400 pounds. For any given time that the elevator is in use, find the probability that it will be overloaded, assuming that Y₁ and Y₂ are independent.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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