A certain car model has a mean gas mileage of 28 miles per gallon with a standard deviation 5 mpg. Suppose nothing is known about the distribution of gas mileage. A pizza delivery company buys 37 of these cars. What is the probability that the average mileage of the fleet us between 27.2 and 28.8 mpg?

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Leah Villanueva

Mathematics

26 January, 11:41

A certain car model has a mean gas mileage of 28 miles per gallon with a standard deviation 5 mpg. Suppose nothing is known about the distribution of gas mileage. A pizza delivery company buys 37 of these cars. What is the probability that the average mileage of the fleet us between 27.2 and 28.8 mpg?

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Ezekiel Fernandez · Answer 1

the probability that the average mileage of the fleet us between 27.2 and 28.8 will be:

27.2
this will be:

P (x<28.8) - P (x<27.2)

To evaluate this we use the z-score formula:

P (x<28.2) = P (z
Z = (x - μ) / σ

μ-mean

σ-standard deviation

thus

z = (28.2-28) / 5=0.04

thus

P (x<28.2) = 0.5160

p (x<27.2

z = (27.2-8) / 5=-0.16

P (z<-0.16) = 0.4364

thus

P (x<28.8) - P (x<27.2) = 0.5160-0.4364=0.0796

Answer: 0.0796