A statistics teacher believes that the final exam grades for her class have a normal distribution with a mean of 82 and a standard deviation of 8. Answer the following: if x represents a possible test score for this population, find P(x >92)

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Answer:

P(x >92) = 0.1056

Step-by-step explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex], the zscore of a measure X is given by:

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this problem, we have that:

[tex]\mu = 82, \sigma 8[/tex]

P(x >92)

This is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 92. So

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

[tex]Z = \frac{92 - 82}{8}[/tex]

[tex]Z = 1.25[/tex]

[tex]Z = 1.25[/tex] has a pvalue of 0.8944

1 - 0.8944 = 0.1056

P(x >92) = 0.1056

Answer:

[tex]P(X>92)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}>\frac{92-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z>\frac{92-82}{8})=P(z>1.25)[/tex]

And we can find this probability with the complement rule and using the normal standard table or excel:

[tex]P(z>1.25)=1-P(z<1.25)=1-0.894=0.106 [/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".  

Solution to the problem

Let X the random variable that represent the final exam grades of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

[tex]X \sim N(82,8)[/tex]  

Where [tex]\mu=82[/tex] and [tex]\sigma=8[/tex]

We are interested on this probability

[tex]P(X>92)[/tex]

And the best way to solve this problem is using the normal standard distribution and the z score given by:

[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

If we apply this formula to our probability we got this:

[tex]P(X>92)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}>\frac{92-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z>\frac{92-82}{8})=P(z>1.25)[/tex]

And we can find this probability with the complement rule and using the normal standard table or excel:

[tex]P(z>1.25)=1-P(z<1.25)=1-0.894=0.106 [/tex]