The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 15 - Sampling Distributions - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 360: 15.12b

Answer

P(z > 1) = 0.1587

Work Step by Step

To compute the probability, we need to find the z score: $z = \frac{x̅ - μ_{x̅}}{σ_{x̅}} = \frac{0.6 - 0.5}{0.1} = 1$ P(z > 1) = 0.1587
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