It has been determined that the mean amount of time that computer science majors spend on homework each week is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 15.2 hours and standard deviation 3.1 hours. What is the probability that a randomly selected computer science major will spend more than 14.5 hours on homework in a given week?
Solution:
Given that,
mean = = 15.2 hours
standard deviation = = 3.1 hours
p ( x > 14.5 )
= 1 - p (x < 14.5)
= 1 - p ( x - / ) < ( 14.5 - 15.2/ 3.1 )
= 1 - p ( z < - 0.7 / 3.1 )
= 1 - p ( z < - 0.23 )
Using z table
= 1 - 0.4090
= 0.5910
Probability = 0.5910
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