SOLUTION: Heights of college women have a distribution that can be approximated by a normal curve with a mean of 65 inches and a standard deviation equal to 3 inches. About what proportion o

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Question 1101167: Heights of college women have a distribution that can be approximated by a normal curve with a mean of 65 inches and a standard deviation equal to 3 inches. About what proportion of college women are between 65 and 67 inches tall?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20066)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since 65 is the mean, its z-score is 0.

Find the z-score of 67

, round to 0.67

Find z = 0.6 and go across to the column with 0.07
and read either 0.2486 or 0.7486.

If you read 0.2486, that's the answer because you table
reads area from 0 to the right.

If you read 0.7486, you must subtract 0.5 and get 0.2486,
because your table reads areas from the far left side.

That's the area under the curve between the two green lines:

If you use a calculator, you will get a more accurate
answer.

mormalcdf(0,0.666667)

Get 0.2475.

The discrepancy is because tables are not as accurate as
calculators.

In fact, when you use a calculator you do not need to calculate
the z-score, just put the lower and upper limits followed by the mean
and standard deviation.

mormalcdf(65,67,65,3)

That gives 0.2475, also.

Edwin



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