The Japan Sumo Association Has Begun to Measure the Body

question 46

Essay

The Japan Sumo Association has begun to measure the body fat of wrestlers to try to combat the growing problem of excessive obesity within the sport.As of 2010,the average wrestler weighed 412 pounds.Suppose the weights of sumo wrestlers are normally distributed,with a standard deviation of 37 pounds.What is the probability that a randomly selected wrestler weighs between 350 and 450 pounds?

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Definitions:

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and is not demonstrated until there is motivation to do so.

Unreinforced Learning

Learning that occurs without any specific feedback or reinforcement for responses or behaviors.

Extinction

Within psychology, the process where a conditioned response slowly diminishes and eventually ceases when the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is no longer made.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with learned responses.