Respuesta :
Answer:
[tex]P(X<0.3)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}<\frac{0.3-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z<\frac{0.3-0.25}{0.08})=P(z<0.625)[/tex]
And we can find this probability using the z score table or excel:
[tex]P(z<0.625)=0.734[/tex]
So then we can conclude that the proportion of fish that are safe to eat is about 0.734
Step-by-step explanation:
Previous concepts
Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".
The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".
Solution to the problem
Let X the random variable that represent the concentrations of mercury in individual fish of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:
[tex]X \sim N(0.25,0.08)[/tex]
Where [tex]\mu=0.25[/tex] and [tex]\sigma=0.08[/tex]
We are interested on this probability
[tex]P(X<0.30)[/tex]
And the best way to solve this problem is using the normal standard distribution and the z score given by:
[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}[/tex]
If we apply this formula to our probability we got this:
[tex]P(X<0.3)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}<\frac{0.3-\mu}{\sigma})=P(Z<\frac{0.3-0.25}{0.08})=P(z<0.625)[/tex]
And we can find this probability using the z score table or excel:
[tex]P(z<0.625)=0.734[/tex]
So then we can conclude that the proportion of fish that are safe to eat is about 0.734
