The defect length of a corrosion defect in a pressurized steel pipe is normally distributed with mean value 28 mm and standard deviation 7.6 mm.(a)What is the probability that defect length is at most 20 mm

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Answer:

14.69% probability that defect length is at most 20 mm

Step-by-step explanation:

When the distribution is normal, we use the z-score formula.

In a set with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex], the zscore of a measure X is given by:

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this question, we have that:

[tex]\mu = 28, \sigma = 7.6[/tex]

What is the probability that defect length is at most 20 mm

This is the pvalue of Z when X = 20. So

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

[tex]Z = \frac{20 - 28}{7.6}[/tex]

[tex]Z = -1.05[/tex]

[tex]Z = -1.05[/tex] has a pvalue of 0.1469

14.69% probability that defect length is at most 20 mm