The average popliteal height for your workers is 41.2 cm with a standard deviation of 2.3. What range of values would you use for seat pan height and why?

Question

This is a calculus problem but it comes from a Industrial Ergonomics class.

Answer 1

It is not a calculus problem, but a statistics problem.

Z=(expectation-average)/standard deviation.

For 95% percentile, Z=1.6, thus 1.6=(expectation-41.2)/2.3---->expectation=44.88 cm height.

For easier measurement, set the height as 45 cm.