In: Statistics and Probability
A half-century ago, the mean height of women in a particular country in their 20s was 64.7 inches. Assume that the heights of today's women in their 20s are approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.72 inches. If the mean height today is the same as that of a half-century ago, what percentage of all samples of 22 of today's women in their 20s have mean heights of at least 65.74 inches?
Solution:
Given:
Mean height =
inches
Standard deviation = 
Sample size = n = 22
We have to find: percentage of all samples of 22 of today's women in their 20s have mean heights of at least 65.74 inches
That is:

Find z score:




Thus


Look in z table for z = 2.8 and 0.04 and find area.

Thus we get: P( Z < 0.9977 )
thus




Thus 0.23 % of all samples of 22 of today's women in their 20s have mean heights of at least 65.74 inches.