The Boeing 757-200 ER airliner carries 200 passengers and has doors with a height of 72 in.

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The Boeing 757-200 ER airliner carries 200 passengers and has doors with a height of 72 in. Heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 69.0 in. and a standard deviation of 2.8 in.

a. What doorway height would allow 95% of men to enter the aircraft without bending?

b. Assume that half of the 200 passengers are men. What doorway height satisfies the condition that there is a 0.95 probability that this height is greater than the mean height of 100 men?

c. When designing the Boeing 757-200 ER airliner, which result is more relevant: The height from part (a) or the height from part (b)? Why?

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9780321500243

11th Edition

Authors: Mario F. Triola

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