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In this exercise, we were told that the time that it takes to complete exam.
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We'll call that random variable x is normally distributed with the mean of 75 and standard deviation of 10.
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And then we're asked in part a to find the probability that a randomly selected student will complete the exam in more than 80 minutes.
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So that is the probability that x is greater than 80.
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We can re -express this as 1 minus the probability that x is at most 80.
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And we can solve this probability in excel.
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So we enter our formula in excel, we start with equals.
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We use the normal distribution function.
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So that's the first one highlighted in blue.
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We want the probability that x is lessen or equal to 80.
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So we enter 80.
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And then we enter the parameters for our distribution.
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The mean is 75.
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Standard deviation is 10.
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And for cumulative we want true because we are looking for a cumulative probability.
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The probability that x is less than or equal to 80.
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And we get 0 .6915.
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And so that probability comes out to 0 .3085.
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Then for b, we want to find the probability that among 100 students who take the exam, at least one will complete it in less than 65 minutes.
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For step one, let's find the probability that a randomly selected student completes the exam in less than 65 minutes.
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And we'll do this in excel.
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You can recycle the formula we just used, except we enter 65 instead of 80 for the first argument, and it's .1587.
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And let's refer to this probability as p.
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Now we have 100 students in our sample, and let's define a random variable y as the number of students in the sample of 100 who complete the exam in less than 65 minutes.
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Here, why is a binomial random variable? because we have bernoulli trials, 100 of them.
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So a bernoulli trial is where you only have two possibilities, success and failure, and each trial is independent from the other trials.
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And we know they're independent because the distribution for each student is that normal distribution of mean 75 minutes and standard deviation of 10 minutes.
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Now for a binomial random variable, the probability mass function is given by this formula.
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It's n choose x times p to the exponent x times 1 minus p to the exponent n minus x.
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And x can be any integer from 0 up to n...