SOLUTION: Heights of American women aged 20 to 29 years are normally distributed with a mean of 64.3 inches and an SD of 2.4 inches. We want to find the bottom 5% of the height distribution.

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Question 948957: Heights of American women aged 20 to 29 years are normally distributed with a mean of 64.3 inches and an SD of 2.4 inches. We want to find the bottom 5% of the height distribution.
How is this done?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the z-score where
For that probability,




So is the bottom 5%.

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