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-Lengths of pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days. (a)Find the probability of a pregnancy lasting more than 250 days. (b)Find the probability of a pregnancy lasting more than 280 days. These two problems are solved almost exactly the same. Draw the diagram for each and discuss the part of the solution that would be different to finding the requested probabilities.
Distribution
The way in which values in a dataset are spread or dispersed across the range of data points.
Kurtosis
The quality of a distribution that defines how flat or peaked it is.
Positively Skewed
A description of a distribution that has a tail extending to the right, indicating a concentration of values on the lower end.
Tail
The far end of a distribution curve, representing the extreme values in a set of data, either on the higher or lower end.
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