A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Suppose that the distance of fly balls hit to the outfield (in baseball) is
Use your graphing calculator to answer the following questions. Write your answers in percent form. Round your answers to the nearest tenth of a percent.
a) If one fly ball is randomly chosen from this distribution, what is the
- PP(fewer than 192 feet) = %
b) If one fly ball is randomly chosen from this distribution, what is the probability that this ball traveled more than 234 feet?
- PP(more than 234 feet) = %
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