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Assignment 2 - Normal Distribution

The document contains problems related to the normal distribution. It provides the means and standard deviations for completion times of a production task, delivery distances for a trucking company, and test scores. It then asks questions to calculate probabilities related to these distributions, such as the likelihood of a completion time exceeding 50 minutes, a delivery being less than 50 km, or an applicant passing an admission test.

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Assignment 2 - Normal Distribution

The document contains problems related to the normal distribution. It provides the means and standard deviations for completion times of a production task, delivery distances for a trucking company, and test scores. It then asks questions to calculate probabilities related to these distributions, such as the likelihood of a completion time exceeding 50 minutes, a delivery being less than 50 km, or an applicant passing an admission test.

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Problem Set.

Normal Distribution

Solve the following problems completely.

The completion time for a task in a production line is normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes
and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. Production standards consider a task completion time of 50
minutes as still acceptable and completion time of 35 or less as exceptionally good.

1.What is the probability that a random stopwatch reading for one worker will exceed 50 minutes?

ANS: The probability that a random stopwatch reading will exceed 50 minutes is approximately
0.3085, or 30.85%

2.What is the probability that the reading will be exceptionally good?

ANS: The probability that a random stopwatch reading will be exceptionally good (35 or less) is
approximately 0.1587, or 15.87%.

3.Manila based trucking company uses a fleet of trucks to haul commodities of its clients to any point in
the island of Luzon. Delivery distances are normally distributed with a mean of 250 km and a standard
deviation of 100km. What is the probability that the next delivery call will be:

Less than 50 km?

ANS: The probability that the next delivery call will be less than 50 km is approximately 0.0228, or
2.28%.

4.Between 150 and 350 km?

ANS:The probability that the next delivery call will be between 150 km and 350 km is approximately
0.6827, or 68.27%.

5.If the manager decides not to accept trips which will take more than 400 km, what is the probability
that delivery calls will not be serviced?

ANS: The probability that a delivery call will not be serviced if trips over 400 km are not accepted is
approximately 0.0668, or 6.68%.

6.The mean score in the admission test was 80 with a standard deviation of 6.6.

If the passing mark is set at 65, what is the probability that an applicant selected at random passed the
test?
ANS: the probability that an applicant selected at random passed the test is approximately 0.988, or
98.8%

If the upper 25% will automatically get a scholarship, what is the least score must a student obtain to
qualify for the scholarship?

ANS: A student must obtain a score of approximately 84.45 to qualify for the scholarship.

If 500 students took the test, how many of them failed?

ANS: the proportion of students who failed is approximately 0.0122. To find the actual number of
students who failed out of 500, we multiply the proportion by the total number of students:

Number of students who failed=0.0122×500≈6.1

Rounding off, approximately 6 students failed.

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