Question

A civil engineering model for WW, the weight (in units of 1000 pounds) that a span of a bridge can withstand without sustaining structural damage is normally distributed. Suppose that for a certain span W∼N(450,45^2). Suppose further that the weight of cars traveling on the bridge is a random variable with mean 2.5 and standard deviation0.250. Approximately how many cars would have to be on the bridge span simultaneously to have a probability of structural damage that exceeded 0.1?

Approximately _______ cars (round to an integer number).

Answer 1