Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:59am.

mean=20, standard deviation =6.Use the emperical rule to estimate the probabilty that a randomly chosen patient had to wait more than 26 min. Of 2000 patients, estimate the # of patient having to wait more than 26 mins

statistics - PsyDAG, Monday, November 12, 2012 at 1:15pm
Z = (score-mean)/SD

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability related to the Z score. Multiply that probability by 2000 to get your second answer.

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