Chapter 7: Q.62 (page 456)
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 . and a standard deviation of in 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 cars per hour. Find the probability that cars will carry more than people. Show your work. (Hint: Restate this event in terms of the mean number of people x per car.)
Short Answer
From the given information,
a) No, the exact distribution of the count is not Normal.
b) The probability is
3. Describe the shape of the