A radar unit is used to measure speeds of a car on a motorway. Speeds are normal distributed with a mean of 90 km an hour and a standard deviation of 10 km an hour. What is the probability that a car picked at random is traveling out more than 100 km an hour

A radar unit is used to measure speeds of a car on a motorway Speeds are normal distributed with a mean of 90 km an hour and a standard deviation of 10 km an ho class=

Respuesta :

let x is the random variable that represents the speed of car.

[tex]\begin{gathered} \mu(\operatorname{mean})=90 \\ \sigma=10 \end{gathered}[/tex]

probability that x is higher than 100 :

[tex]P(x>100)[/tex]

for x=100:

[tex]\begin{gathered} z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma} \\ z=\frac{100-90}{10} \\ z=1 \end{gathered}[/tex]

so,

[tex]p(x>100)=p(z=1)[/tex]

probability =total area - area of the left of (z=1)

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{probability}=1-0.8413 \\ p(x>100)=0.1587 \end{gathered}[/tex]

and the area of the left of z=1 is 0.8413 (from normal distribution)