SOLUTION: a company manufactures rubber balls. the mean diameter of a ball is 16 cm with a standard deviation of 0.1 cm. X ~ N(16,0.1) What is the median?

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Question 1173823: a company manufactures rubber balls. the mean diameter of a ball is 16 cm with a standard deviation of 0.1 cm.
X ~ N(16,0.1)

What is the median?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
While it is not necessarily true, and usually isn't, in a list of values,

the median of a normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ2 is also μ.

So in your problem, the median is also ~ 16.
 
{In fact, for a normal distribution, mean = median = mode. The median of a
uniform distribution in the interval [a,b] is (a+b)/2, which is also the mean.}

Edwin