Essay
The height of male students at your college/university is normally distributed with a mean of 70 inches and a standard deviation of 3.5 inches. If you had a list of telephone numbers for male students for the purpose of conducting a survey, what would be the probability of randomly calling one of these students whose height is
(a)taller than 6'0"?
(b)between 5'3" and 6'5"?
(c)shorter than 5'7", the mean height of female students?
(d)shorter than 5'0"?
(e)taller than Shaquille O'Neal, the center of the Boston Celtics, who is 7'1" tall?
Compare this to the probability of a woman being pregnant for 10 months (300 days), where days of pregnancy is normally distributed with a mean of 266 days and a standard deviation of 16 days.
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(a)Pr(Z > 0.5714)= 0.2839;
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