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Brush your teeth The amount of time Ricardo spends brushing his teeth follows a Normal distribution with unknown mean and standard deviation. Ricardo spends less than 1 minute brushing his teeth about 40% of the time. He spends more than 2 minutes brushing his teeth 2% of the time. Use this information to determine the mean and standard deviation of this distribution.

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Mean,=1.1087

Standard deviation,=0.4348

Step by step solution

01

Given information

Ricardo brushes his teeth for less than a minute roughly 40% of the time.

Ricardo brushes his teeth for more than 2 minutes 2 percent of the time.

02

Calculation

Ricardo spends less than 1 minute about 40% of the time.

Now,

In the normal probability table of the appendix, find the z-score that corresponds to a probability of 40% (or 0.40).

Note that

The probability that comes closest is 0.40129which is found in row -0.2 and column.05 of the normal probability table.

Then

The corresponding z score,

z=0.25

And

Ricardo spends more than 2 minutes about 2% of the time.

That means

Ricardo spends less than 2 minutes about 98% of the time.

03

Calculation

Now,

In the normal probability table of the appendix, find the z-score that corresponds to a probability of 98percent (or 0.98)

Note that

The probability that comes closest is 0.9798, which is found in row 2.0and column.05of the normal probability table.

Then

The corresponding zscore,

z=2.05

Now,

The value will be the mean multiplied by the product of the z 鈭 value and the (standard deviation).

1=x=+z=0.25

And

2=x=+z=+2.05

Subtract the above two equations:

1=2.30

Divide both sides by 2.30:

We have

Standard deviation,

=12.30=0.4348

Then

Find the mean:

=1+0.25=1+0.25(0.4348)=1.1087

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