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Chapter 3, Problem 79(choose chapter or problem)
Exercises 79 and 80 refer to the following setting. In its recent Fuel Economy Guide, the Environmental Protection Agency gives data on 1152 vehicles. There are a number of outliers, mainly vehicles with very poor gas mileage. If we ignore the outliers, however, the combined city and highway gas mileage of the other 1120 or so vehicles is approximately Normal with mean 18.7 miles per gallon (mpg) and standard deviation 4.3 mpg. In my Chevrolet (2.2) The Chevrolet Malibu with a four-cylinder engine has a combined gas mileage of 25 mpg. What percent of all vehicles have worse gas mileage than the Malibu?
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QUESTION:
Exercises 79 and 80 refer to the following setting. In its recent Fuel Economy Guide, the Environmental Protection Agency gives data on 1152 vehicles. There are a number of outliers, mainly vehicles with very poor gas mileage. If we ignore the outliers, however, the combined city and highway gas mileage of the other 1120 or so vehicles is approximately Normal with mean 18.7 miles per gallon (mpg) and standard deviation 4.3 mpg. In my Chevrolet (2.2) The Chevrolet Malibu with a four-cylinder engine has a combined gas mileage of 25 mpg. What percent of all vehicles have worse gas mileage than the Malibu?
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
Given,
No. of vehicles,
The mean mileage,
The standard deviation of mileage,
Combined gas mileage of Chevrolet Malibu,
We have to calculate the percent of all vehicles have worse gas mileage than the Malibu: