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The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 5 and 5.74 years old. A first time kindergarten child is selected at random. Round answers to 4 decimal places if possible.
- The
mean of this distribution is - The standard deviation is
- What is the
probability that the child will be older than 5.4 years old? - The probability that the child will be between 5.4 and 5.6 years old is
- If such a child is at the 77th percentile, how old is that child? years old
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