MHB -aux04 Species of insect is normally distributed

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The lifespan of a specific insect species follows a normal distribution with a mean of 57 hours and a standard deviation of 4.4 hours. Standardization of the lifespan values yielded z-scores of -0.45 for 55 hours and 0.68 for 60 hours. The probability of an insect living more than 55 hours is approximately 67%, while the probability of living between 55 and 60 hours is around 43%. Further calculations using rational numbers provided similar results for these probabilities. A follow-up question regarding the lifespan of 90% of the insects will be addressed in future discussions.
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just seeing how I did on this one:confused:

The lifespan of a particular species of insect is normally distributed with a mean of $57$ hours and a standard deviation of $4.4$ hours.

this is the normal distribution with $\mu = 57$ and $\sigma = 4.4$

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tried to standardize this by $\frac{55-75}{4.4}=-0.45$ and $\frac{60-57}{4.4}=0.68$

with $\mu = 0$ and $\sigma = 1$ and $P(-0.45 < x < 0.68)$
which hopefully looks like the given graph on the right belowhttps://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/1027View attachment 1028

(a) What are the values of $a$ and $b$
from the standard $\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma} a=-0.45$ and $b=0.68$

(b) Find the probability that the lifespan of an insect of this species is more than $55$ hours

$P(55 < X)$ from $z$ score $0.45$ then $0.1736 + .5 = .6736$ or $\approx 67\%$

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(b) Find the probability that the lifespan of an insect of this species is between $55$ and $60$ hours

$0.2517+0.1736=0.4253$ or $\approx 43\%$
 
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Re: species of insect is normally distributed

Using rational numbers instead of decimal approximations:

a) $$a=-\frac{5}{11},\,b=\frac{15}{22}$$

Using numeric integration for comparison:

b) $$P(55<X)\approx0.675282$$

c) $$P(55<X<60)\approx0.427605$$

I would say you did them correctly.
 
Re: species of insect is normally distributed

well that is encouraging. there still is one more question on this but I will post it tomorrow. :)
 
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(i) Represent this information on a standard normal curve diagram indicating clearly the area representing $90\%$.

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