Answer to Question #350098 in Statistics and Probability for Mce

Question

For the population of 18 74 year old females in the United States height is normally distributed with mean 63.9 inches and standard deviation 2.6. If we randomly select a woman from the population what’s the probability that she’s less than 60 inches

Answer 1

$P(X<60)=P(Z<\frac{60-63.9}{2.6})=P(Z<-1.5)=1-P(Z<1.5)=0.0668.$