An article suggests that substrate concentration (mg/cm3) of influent to a reactor is normally distributed with μ = 0.50 and σ = 0.08. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) (a) What is the probability that the concentration exceeds 0.60?

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Answer:

0.1056 = 10.56% probability that the concentration exceeds 0.60

Step-by-step explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex], the zscore of a measure X is given by:

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this problem, we have that:

[tex]\mu = 0.5, \sigma = 0.08[/tex]

What is the probability that the concentration exceeds 0.60?

This is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 0.6. So

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

[tex]Z = \frac{0.6 - 0.5}{0.08}[/tex]

[tex]Z = 1.25[/tex]

[tex]Z = 1.25[/tex] has a pvalue of 0.8944

1 - 0.8944 = 0.1056

0.1056 = 10.56% probability that the concentration exceeds 0.60