Normal Distribution

Question

Terri Vogel, an amateur motorcycle racer, averages 129.28 seconds per 2.5 mile lap (in a 7 lap race) with a standard deviation of 2.26 seconds . The distribution of her race times is normally distributed. We are interested in one of her randomly selected laps. (Source: log book of Terri Vogel) Let X be the number of seconds for a randomly selected lap. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(_____,______)

b. Find the proportion of her laps that are completed between 127.41 and 129.14 seconds. ______

c. The fastest 3% of laps are under ________seconds.

d. The middle 60% of her laps are from _____  seconds to ______ seconds.

Answer 1