Speeding: On a stretch of Interstate-89, car
speed is a normally distributed variable with a mean of 69.3 mph
and a standard deviation of 3.1 mph.
Suppose you are a police officer on this stretch of road and only
have time to ticket 2% of the cars that go by you. How fast should
someone be traveling before you pull them over? Round your
answer to 1 decimal place.
mph
Given that, mean (μ) = 69.3 mph and
standard deviation = 3.1 mph
We want to find, the value of x such that, P(X > x) = 0.02
Answer : 75.7 mph
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