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Chapter 6: Q. 6.13 (page 437)

Ed and Adelaide attend the same high school but are in different math classes. The time E that it takes Ed to do his math homework follows a Normal distribution with mean 25 minutes and standard deviation 5 minutes. Adelaide's math homework time A follows a Normal distribution with mean 50 minutes and standard deviation 10 minutes. Assume that E and A are independent random variables.

a. Randomly select one math assignment of Ed's and one math assignment of Adelaide's. Let the random variable D be the difference in the amount of time each student spent on their assignments: D=A-E. Find the mean and the standard deviation of D.

b. Find the probability that Ed spent longer on his assignment than Adelaide did on hers.

Short Answer

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  1. Mean and standard deviation of D are 25 minutes and 11.180minutes respectively.
  2. Probability that Ed spent more time than Adelaide is 0.987322.

Step by step solution

01

Part (a) Step 1: Given information

Given :

E is the amount of time Ed spends on his arithmetic homework.

A is the amount of time Adelaide spends on her arithmetic homework.

E=25 minutes is the average time

E=5 minutes standard deviation

The average time isA=50minutes.

A=10minutes standard deviation

Both Eand A are unrelated to one another.

Concept used:

If two variables are independent,

Mean(X-Y)=E(X)-E(Y)Var(X-Y)=Var(X)+Var(Y)

02

Part (a) Step 2: Calculation

Consider,

D=A-E

Mean of D

E(D)=E(A-E)=E(A)-E(E)=50-25=25minutes

Variance of D

V(A-E)=V(A)+V(E)=102+52=125

Standard deviation D=V(D)=125=11.180 minutes

So,

D~N(25,125)
03

Part (b) Step 1: Given information

Given :

E is the amount of time Ed spends on his arithmetic homework.

A is the amount of time Adelaide spends on her arithmetic homework.

E=25minutes is the average time

E=5minutes standard deviation

The average time is A=50minutes.

A=10 minutes standard deviation

Both E and A are unrelated to one another.

Concept used:

If two variables are independent,

Mean(X-Y)=E(X)-E(Y)Var(X-Y)=Var(X)+Var(Y)

04

Part (b) Step 2: Calculation

Consider,

P(E>A)=P(E-A>0)P(D>0)=PD-渭D蟽D>0-2511.180P(z>-2.236)=P(z<2.236)

From z tables,

P(z<2.23)=0.98713P(z<2.24)=0.98745P(z<2.236)=0.98713+(0.98745-0.98713)脳0.6

Therefore,

P(z<2.236)=0.987322

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