Raj wants to improve his fitness, so every day he goes for a run. The times, in minutes, of his runs have a normal distribution with mean 41.2 and standard deviation 3.6.
On 95% of days, Raj runs for more than t minutes.
Find the value of t.
The times taken, in minutes, to complete a particular task by employees at a large company are normally distributed with mean 32.2 and standard deviation 9.6.
20% of employees take longer than t minutes to complete the task.
Find the value of t.
The times, in minutes, that Karli spends each day on social media are normally distributed with mean 125 and standard deviation 24.
On 90% of days, Karli spends more than t minutes on social media.
Find the value of t.
The lengths of the leaves of a particular type of tree are modelled by a normal distribution. A scientist measures the lengths of a random sample of 500 leaves from this type of tree and finds that 42 are less than 4 cm long and 100 are more than 10 cm long.
(a) Find estimates for the mean and standard deviation of the lengths of leaves from this type of tree.
The lengths, in cm, of the leaves of a different type of tree have the distribution \(N(\mu, \sigma^2)\). The scientist takes a random sample of 800 leaves from this type of tree.
(b) Find how many of these leaves the scientist would expect to have lengths, in cm, between \(\mu - 2\sigma\) and \(\mu + 2\sigma\).
The weights of bags of sugar are normally distributed with mean 1.04 kg and standard deviation \(\sigma\) kg. In a random sample of 2000 bags of sugar, 72 weighed more than 1.10 kg.
Find the value of \(\sigma\).