The annual rainfall in a certain region is approximately normally distributed with mean 41.4 inches and standard deviation 5.7 inches. Round answers to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Complete question :

The annual rainfall in a certain region is approximately normally distributed with mean 41.4 inches and standard deviation 5.7 inches. Round answers to the nearest tenth of a percent. a) What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of less than 43 inches? b) What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of more than 39 inches? c) What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of between 38 inches and 42 inches?

0.61053

0.66314

0.26647

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that :

Mean (m) = 41.4 inches

Standard deviation (s) = 5.7 inches

a) What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of less than 43 inches?

P(x < 43)

USing the relation to obtain the standardized score (Z) :

Z = (x - m) / s

Z = (43 - 41.4) / 5.7 = 0.2807017

p(Z < 0.2807) = 0.61053 ( Z probability calculator)

b) What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of more than 39 inches? c)

P(x > 39)

USing the relation to obtain the standardized score (Z) :

Z = (x - m) / s

Z = (39 - 41.4) / 5.7 = −0.421052

p(Z > −0.421052) = 0.66314 ( Z probability calculator)

What percentage of years will have an annual rainfall of between 38 inches and 42 inches?

P(x < 38)

USing the relation to obtain the standardized score (Z) :

Z = (x - m) / s

Z = (38 - 41.4) / 5.7 = −0.596491

p(Z < −0.596491) = 0.27545 ( Z probability calculator)

P(x < 42)

USing the relation to obtain the standardized score (Z) :

Z = (x - m) / s

Z = (42 - 41.4) / 5.7 = 0.1052631

p(Z < 0.1052631) = 0.54192 ( Z probability calculator)

0.54192 - 0.27545 = 0.26647

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.

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