Asked by Ashley

The medical records of infants delivered at Kaiser Memorial Hospital show that the infants' lengths at birth (in inches) are normally distributed with a mean of 22 and a standard deviation of 2.1. Find the probability that an infant selected at random from among those delivered at the hospital measures the following.
A)more than 24 in.

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Answered by Steve
from your handy Z table, you find that

24 is 2/2.1 = 0.952 std above the mean
P(Z>0.952) = 0.17

See the app at

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

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