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A study of 12,000 able-bodied make students at Syracuse University found that their times for the mile run were approximately Normally distributed with mean 7.11 minutes and standard deviation 0.74 minute. a. About how many students ran the mile in less than 6 minutes? (3 points) b. Approximately how long did it take the slowest 10% of the students to run the mile? (3 points) c. Suppose that these mile run times are converted from minutes to seconds. Estimate the percent of students who ran the mile in between 400 and 500 seconds.
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Ответ:
a) About 802 students ran the mile in less than 6 minutes
b) It took at least 8.06 minutes for the slowest 10% of the students to run the mile
c) 67.62% of students ran the mile in between 400 and 500 seconds.
Step-by-step explanation:
Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.
In a set with mean
and standard deviation
, the zscore of a measure X is given by:
The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.
In this problem, we have that:
a. About how many students ran the mile in less than 6 minutes?
Proportion who ran in less than 6 minutes is the pvalue of Z when X = 6. So
Out of 12000
0.0668*12000 = 801.6
About 802 students ran the mile in less than 6 minutes.
b. Approximately how long did it take the slowest 10% of the students to run the mile?
The slowest, the higher the time.
So this is the 100-10 = 90th percentile of times.
Which are times of X when Z = 1.28 and greater
It took at least 8.06 minutes for the slowest 10% of the students to run the mile
c. Suppose that these mile run times are converted from minutes to seconds. Estimate the percent of students who ran the mile in between 400 and 500 seconds.
Each minute has 60 seconds. So
This percent is the pvalue of Z when X = 500 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 400. So
X = 500
X = 400
0.9505 - 0.2743 = 0.6762
67.62% of students ran the mile in between 400 and 500 seconds.
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