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Nov 2019 p61 q7
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The shortest time recorded by an athlete in a 400 m race is called their personal best (PB). The PBs of the athletes in a large athletics club are normally distributed with mean 49.2 seconds and standard deviation 2.8 seconds.
It is found that 92% of athletes from this club have PBs of more than t seconds. Find the value of t.
Solution
Given that 92% of athletes have PBs of more than t seconds, this implies that 8% have PBs less than t seconds. In a standard normal distribution, this corresponds to a z-score of approximately -1.406.
Using the standardization formula:
\(z = \frac{t - \mu}{\sigma}\)
where \(\mu = 49.2\) and \(\sigma = 2.8\), we have: