Saturday, October 29, 2011

Time taken to complete jobs of a particular type is known to be normally distributed with mean 6.2 hours and standard deviation 1.1 hours. What is...

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Each normal distribution with a mean and standard deviation may be made standard normal distribution by the linear transformation where is any value we are interesting in. Here (hours) and (hours).


Then we can use a table of probabilities for a standard normal distribution, I attached the link to it. Note that any normal distribution is symmetric, and the probability of "value less than the mean" is 0.5 (and 0.5, too, for "greater than the mean").


For using with this table, we compute


(- means to the left of the mean).


For we have



The table values for and are approximately and Now we can answer our questions.



1. Less than It is the left half of values with the probability 0.5, and those between 1/2 and for which we know the probability from the table. So the probability is about


2. Less than It is the left half of values minus those between and i.e. the probability is about


. Between and It is "between and " plus "between and ", i.e. about


We can use more precise table or online solving tool for the more precise results.

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