SOLUTION: The average height of a certain age group of people is 53 inches. The standard deviation is 4 inches. If the variable is normally distributed, find the probability that a selected

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Question 1182318: The average height of a certain age group of people is 53 inches. The standard deviation is 4 inches. If the variable is normally distributed, find the probability that a selected individual's height will be greater than 59 inches.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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z=(x-mean)/sd
> (59-53)/4=1.5
that probability of z's being > 1.5 is 0.0668.