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An airliner carries 300 passengers and has doors with a height of 75 inches heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 69 inches and a standard deviation of 2.8 inches female passenger is randomly selected find the probability that you can fit through the door way without bending

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An airliner carries 300 passengers and has doors with a height of 75 inches. Heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 69.0 inches and a standard deviation of 2.8 inches. If a male passenger is randomly selected, find the probability that he can fit through the doorway without bending. (Round to four decimal places as needed.)

Answer:

0.9839

Explanation:

We solve using formula Z score

z = (x-μ)/σ,

where

x is the raw score

μ is the population mean

σ is the population standard deviation.

We are to find thethe probability that he can fit through the doorway without bending. This means his height is less than (< ) the height of the doorway(75 inches).

z = 75 - 69/2.8

z = 2.14286

Probability value from Z-Table:

P(x ≤ 75) = P(x = 75) = P(x < 75)

= 0.98394

Approximately ≈ 0.9839

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