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How many people are in a car? A study of rush-hour traf铿乧 in San Francisco counts the number of people in each car entering a freeway at a suburban interchange. Suppose that this count has a mean of 1.5. and a standard deviation of 0.75in the population of all cars that enter this interchange during rush hours.

(a) Could the exact distribution of the count be Normal? Why or why not?

(b) Traf铿乧 engineers estimate that the capacity of the interchange is 700cars per hour. Find the probability that 700 cars will carry more than 1075 people. Show your work. (Hint: Restate this event in terms of the mean number of people x per car.)

Short Answer

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From the given information,

a) No, the exact distribution of the count is not Normal.

b) The probability is1.038

Step by step solution

01

Part (a) Step 1: Given Information 

It is given in the question that, the population mean ()=1.5

population standard deviation ()=0.75

Could the exact distribution of the count be Normal? Why or why not?

02

Part (a) Step 2: Explanation 

It is known that the normal distribution is entitled to take any real number. Here, the count is taking only values that are positive integers. Thus, the distribution of count is not normal.

03

Part (b) Step 1: Given Information

It is given in the question that, the population mean()=1.5

population standard deviation ()=0.75

Find the probability that 700 cars will carry more than 1075 people.

04

Part (b) Step 2: Explanation 

There are total 700passengers. The average number of passengers can be calculated as:

X-=1075700

=1.536

The probability that more than 1075people would be carried out by the 700cars is calculated as follows:

P(X>21.536)=P(xn>1.536n)

=P(Z>1.5361.50.75100)

=P(Z>1.26)(From standard normal table)

=0.1038

Thus, the required probability is1.038

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