Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Demeisa on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 10:11pm.

Suppose that the heights of adult men in the United States are normally distributed with a mean of inches and a standard deviation of inches. What proportion of the adult men in United States are more than feet tall? (Hint: feet inches.) Round your answer to at least four decimal places.

statistics - PsyDAG, Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 10:02am
Your values are not given.

Z = (score-mean)/SD

Use your values to find the Z score.

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion related to that Z score.

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