Using the Normal Distribution · Exercise 34
An expert witness for a paternity lawsuit testifies that the length of a pregnancy is normally distributed with a mean of 280 days and a standard deviation of 13 days. The person who is being sued for lack of child support was out of the country from 240 to 306 days before the birth of the child, so the pregnancy would have been less than 240 days or more than 306 days long if he was the biological parent. The birth was uncomplicated, and the child needed no medical intervention. What is the probability that he was NOT the parent? What is the probability that he could be the parent? Calculate the z-scores first, and then use those to calculate the probability.
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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §6.2 Using the Normal Distribution · Exercise 34
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