In: Statistics and Probability
Heights of 10 year olds.
Heights of 10 year olds, regardless of gender, closely follow a normal distribution with mean 55 inches and standard deviation 6 inches. Round all answers to four decimal places.
1. What is the probability that a randomly chosen 10 year old is shorter than 57 inches?
2. What is the probability that a randomly chosen 10 year old is between 50 and 52 inches?
3. If the tallest 15% of the class is considered very tall, what is the height cutoff for very tall? inches
4. What is the height of a 10 year old who is at the 39 th percentile? inches
5. In order to ride the Great Chase ride at Six Flags America, a person must be no shorter than 42 inches. What proportion of 10 year olds cannot go on this ride?