Police response time to an emergency call is the difference between the time the

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Police response time to an emergency call is the difference between the time the call is first received by the dispatcher and the time a patrol car radios that it has arrived at the scene. Over a long period of time, it has been determined that the police response time has a normal distribution with a mean of 9.2 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.1 minutes. For a randomly received emergency call, find the following probabilities. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) (a) the response time is between 5 and 11 minutes (b) the response time is less than 5 minutes (c) the response time is more than 11 minutes

Explanation / Answer

mean = 9.2 , s = 2.1

a)
P(5 <x <11)
by normal distribution,
= P((5 - 9.2)/2.1 < z < (11 - 9.2)/2.1)
= P(-2 < z < 0.8571)

P(5 <x <11) = P(-2 < z < 0.8571) = 0.7816 by using standard normal table

b)
P(x <5)
by normal distribution,
z = (x -mean)/s
= (5 - 9.2)/2.1
= -2

P(x <5) = P(z < -2) = 0.0228 by using standard normal table

c)
P(x >11)
by normal distribution,
z = (x -mean)/s
= (11 - 9.2)/2.1
= 0.8571

P(x >11) = P(z . 0.8571) = 0.1957 by using standard normal table

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