Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Normal Probability Distributions - Section 5.1 Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution - Exercises - Page 242: 1

Answer

The real life examples of continuous variables are: (1) speed of a car in the city (2) the time of arrival of a bus at a bus-stop (3) the time for which a student studies

Work Step by Step

The time of arrival of a bus may be normally distributed. The bus will have a specific time of arrival and as we go away from this time, the probability will decrease sharply, just like in a normal distribution.
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