document.write( "Question 1173823: a company manufactures rubber balls. the mean diameter of a ball is 16 cm with a standard deviation of 0.1 cm.\r
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document.write( "While it is not necessarily true, and usually isn't, in a list of values,\r\n" );
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document.write( "the median of a normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ2 is also μ.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So in your problem, the median is also ~ 16.\r\n" );
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document.write( "{In fact, for a normal distribution, mean = median = mode. The median of a\r\n" );
document.write( "uniform distribution in the interval [a,b] is (a+b)/2, which is also the mean.}\r\n" );
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