A half-century ago, the mean height of women in a particular country in their 20s was 64.7 inches. Assume that the heights of today's women in their 20s are approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 2.07 inches. If the mean height today is the same as that of a half-century ago, what percentage of all samples of 21 of today's women in their 20s have mean heights of at least 65.86 inches?

99.5% of all samples of 21 of today's women in their 20's have mean heights of at least 65.86 inches.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that a half-century ago, the mean height of women in a particular country in their 20's was 64.7 inches. Assume that the heights of today's women in their 20's are approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 2.07 inches.

Also, a samples of 21 of today's women in their 20's have been taken.

Let = sample mean heights

The z-score probability distribution for sample mean is given by;

                          Z = ~ N(0,1)

where, = population mean height of women = 64.7 inches

            = standard deviation = 2.07 inches

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is away from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value (area) 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.

Now, Probability that the sample of 21 of today's women in their 20's have mean heights of at least 65.86 inches is given by = P( 65.86 inches)

  P( 65.86 inches) = P( ) = P(Z -2.57) = P(Z 2.57)

                                                                        = 0.99492  or  99.5%

The above probability is calculated by looking at the value of x = 2.57 in the z table which has an area of 0.99492.

Therefore, 99.5% of all samples of 21 of today's women in their 20's have mean heights of at least 65.86 inches.

a) 40 more; b) old factory:   10%, new factory:   16%; c) week 4

explanation:

a) at week 0, we see in the graph that the new factory produces 190 specialty items.  

using the function, substituting 0 in for w,

this is a difference of 230-190 = 40.

b) the function for the old factory is written in the form f(x) = a(1+r)ˣ, where a is the original amount, x is the amount of time and r is the growth rate.   the equation for the old factory is ; 230 is in place of a and is the original amount; w is the amount of time; which means 1+r = 1.1.   this means that r must be 0.1 or 10%.

for the new factory, we find the percent of increase to find the growth rate; the formula for this is

between the first two points, the amount of change is 220-190 = 30; this gives us

30/190 = 0.158 ≈ 0.16 = 16%

c) at week 0, the old factory has 230 while the new factory has 190.

at week 1, the old factory has 230(1.1) = 253 while the new factory has 220.

at week 2, the old factory has 230(1.1²) = 278.3 while the new factory has 252.

at week 3, the old factory has 230(1.1³) = 306.13 while the new factory has 290.

at week 4, the old factory has 230(1.1⁴) = 336.743 while the new factory has 337.   this is the first week that the new factory surpasses the old.