A group of adult males has foot lengths with a mean of 26.87 cm and a standard deviation of 1.32 cm. Use the range rule of thumb to identify the limits separating values that are significantly low or significantly high. Is the adult male foot length of 24.0 cm significantly low or significantly high? Explain. A. Significantly low values are_____cm or lower. B. Significantly high values are _____cm or higher.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
A group of adult males has foot lengths with a mean of 26.87 cm and a standard deviation of 1.32 cm. Use the
A. Significantly low values are_____cm or lower.
B. Significantly high values are _____cm or higher.
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