A Physical Fitness Association Is Including the Mile Run in Its

question 83

Multiple Choice

A physical fitness association is including the mile run in its secondary-school fitness test. The time for thisevent for boys in secondary school is known to possess a normal distribution with a mean of 440 seconds and astandard deviation of 60 seconds. Find the probability that a randomly selected boy in secondary school willtake longer than 302 seconds to run the mile.

• A) 0.9893
• B) 0.4893
• C) 0.0107
• D) 0.5107

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