SOLUTION: A sample of 50 senior citizens is drawn at random from a normal population whose mean age and standard deviation are 75 and 6, years, respectively.What is the probability that th

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Question 844302: A sample of 50 senior citizens is drawn at random from a normal population whose
mean age and standard deviation are 75 and 6, years, respectively.What is the probability that the mean age exceeds 73 years?

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi,
using a TI Calculator
The syntax is normalcdf(smaller, larger, µ, σ)
mean age normalcdf(73, 9999, 75,6)= .6305 0r 63.05%
Note: The 9999 is used as the larger value to be at least 5 standard deviations from the mean.
Or z =
P(z≤ -1/3) = .3695 and 1 - .3695 = .6305
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