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Question 5
The size of gasoline tanks in cars is normally distributed with a mean size of 24.8 gallons and a standard
deviation of 6.2 gallons. What percent of tanks are less than 31 gallons. Round answer to the nearest
percent
84%
71%
16%
20%

Respuesta :

Answer:

[tex]P(X<31)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}<\frac{31-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z<\frac{31-24.8}{6.2})=P(z<1)[/tex]

And we can find this probability using the normal standard distribution or excel and we got:

[tex]P(z<1)= 0.84[/tex]

And if we convert this into % we got 84% so then the best solution would be:

84%

Step-by-step explanation:

Let X the random variable that represent the size of gasoline tanks of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

[tex]X \sim N(24.8,6.2)[/tex]  

Where [tex]\mu=24.8[/tex] and [tex]\sigma=6.2[/tex]

We are interested on this probability

[tex]P(X<31)[/tex]

And we can use the z score formula given by:

[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

Using the last formula we got:

[tex]P(X<31)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}<\frac{31-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z<\frac{31-24.8}{6.2})=P(z<1)[/tex]

And we can find this probability using the normal standard distribution or excel and we got:

[tex]P(z<1)= 0.84[/tex]

And if we convert this into % we got 84% so then the best solution would be:

84%