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I am not exactly sure what I am supposed to do to solve this problem:
The weight of people in a certain pacific island is normally distributed with a mean of 175 lb and a standard deviation of 33 lb. They want to design a one person canoe that will be able to serve 85% of the island's people. What should be the carrying capacity of the canoe?
Ok I know I wouldn't use a CI to solve this problem, but I am not sure what the exact setup would be. I have a hunch that I would use the percentiles where the Z critical value would be 1.04 using Z 15.
Where do I go from there?
The weight of people in a certain pacific island is normally distributed with a mean of 175 lb and a standard deviation of 33 lb. They want to design a one person canoe that will be able to serve 85% of the island's people. What should be the carrying capacity of the canoe?
Ok I know I wouldn't use a CI to solve this problem, but I am not sure what the exact setup would be. I have a hunch that I would use the percentiles where the Z critical value would be 1.04 using Z 15.
Where do I go from there?