In the country of United States of Heightlandia, the height measurements of ten-year-old children are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 56.3 inches, and standard deviation of 3.7 inches.What is the probability that the height of a randomly chosen child is between 47.95 and 49.05 inches?Use the Normal table and give answer to 4 decimal places

Respuesta :

The formula for the z-score z of a value x from a normally distributed data is given by:

[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

In this case,

[tex]\mu=56.3,\sigma=3.7[/tex]

Therefore, the z-score of 47.95 is given by:

[tex]z=\frac{47.95-56.3}{3.7}\approx-2.26[/tex]

Similarly the z-score of 49.05 is -1.96

The required probability is given by:

[tex]Pr(-2.257\lt x\lt-1.959)[/tex]

The required probability:

[tex]Pr(-2.26\lt x\lt-1.96)=Pr(x\lt-1.96)-Pr(x\lt-2.26)[/tex]

Hence,

[tex]Pr(-2.26\lt x\lt-1.96)=0.025-0.0119=0.0131[/tex]