Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 26, 2012 at 1:09pm.

1. The fracture strength of a certain type of manufactured glass is normally distributed with a mean of 579 MPa with a standard deviation of 14 MPa. (a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen sample of glass will break at less than 579 MPa? (b) More than 590 MPa? (c) Less than 600 MPa? (Data are from Science 283 [February 26, 1999], p. 1296.

statistics - PsyDAG, Monday, March 26, 2012 at 6:34pm
Z = (score-mean)/SD

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportions related to the Z scores calculated.
statistics - ldlld, Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:14pm
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