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A new car that is a gas- and electric-powered hybrid has recently hit the market. The distance travelled on 1 gallon of fuel is normally distributed with a mean of 60 miles and a standard deviation of 7 miles. Find the probability of the following events: A. The car travels more than 64 miles per gallon.

 Oct 11, 2016
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A new car that is a gas- and electric-powered hybrid has recently hit the market. The distance travelled on 1 gallon of fuel is normally distributed with a mean of 60 miles and a standard deviation of 7 miles. Find the probability of the following events: A. The car travels more than 64 miles per gallon.

 

That means that the consumption is  4/7  standard deviations above the mean.

 

I'll go look for a statistics calc to help me.

 

Z=+4/7

 

Here is a great site - it does it all for you

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

 

The prob is 0.2839

 

 

 

 Oct 11, 2016

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