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Chapter 6: Q. 6.102 (page 277)

Elephant Pregnancies. G. Wintemeyer et al. studied demographic data on African elephants living in Kenya in the article "Comparative Demography of an At-risk African Elephant Population (PLOS ONE, Vol. 8. No. 1). Based on this study, we will assume that the time between pregnancies of the African elephant in Kenya, for elephants that have more than one calf, is normally distributed with mean of 4.01 years and a standard deviation of 0.94 years. Determine the percentage of such times that are

a. less than 2 years.

b. between 3 and 5 years.

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a) The percentage of time of pregnancies for elephants =1.62%

b) The percentage of time of pregnancies for elephants =71.08%.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information (Part b)

Mean 渭=4.01

Standard deviation蟽=0.94

02

Explanation (Part b)

Find the z score,

For x=3

z=x-渭蟽

=3-4.010.94forx=5

For x=5

z=x-渭蟽

=5-4.010.94

=1.05

The area between z scores is

=(area to the left of1.05)-(area to the left of-1.07)

=0.8531-0.1423

=0.7108

03

Given Information(Part a)

To find the percentage of time of pregnancies for elephants less than 2 years.

04

Explanation (Part a)

Mean 渭=4.01

Standard deviation 蟽=0.94

Find the z score,

For x=2

z=x-渭蟽

=2-4.010.94

=-2.14

The area to the left of the z score of 2.14 is 0.0162.

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