Assume a study shows that the distribution of body fat percentage for all American males has a
Question:
Assume a study shows that the distribution of body fat percentage for all American males has a normal distribution with mean 17% and standard deviation 3%.
a. If the us army requires any male recruit to have less than 24% body fat, what is the probability that a randomly selected American male will be rejected by this requirement? assume another study shows that males serving in the us army have body fat percentages following a normal distribution mean 14% and standard deviation 2%.
b. Compare the probability that a randomly sampled American male has a body fat below 8% to the probability that randomly sampled male from the army has this body fat percentage. explain your result.
Elementary Statistics
ISBN: 978-0538733502
11th edition
Authors: Robert R. Johnson, Patricia J. Kuby