Question

Response time is an important statistic for measuring the effectiveness of a fire department, and is measured as the difference between the time a fire station receives a call and the time the first piece of fire equipment leaves the station. The response times for fire departments in a large city are found to have an approximately Normal distribution, with a mean of 4.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 1.2 minutes. What percentage of fire station response times are under 3 minutes? Find the z-table here. 6.68% 10.56% 89.44% 93.32%

Answer 1

Answer:

mean = 4.5

SD = 1.2

Z value = (3-4.5)/1.2 = - 1.25

Percentage based on z value = 1 - pnorm(1.25) =  0.1056498 = 10.56498%

Answer 2

The response times under 3 minutes is 10.56%

What is Normal Distribution?

'Normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution wherein values lie in a symmetrical fashion mostly situated around the mean.'

According to the given problem,

mean = 4.5

SD = 1.2

Z value = $\frac{3 - 4.5}{1.2}$ = - 1.25

Percentage based on z value = 1 - pnorm(1.25)

                                                 =  0.1056498

                                                 = 10.56498%

Hence, we can conclude that the response time of fire station under 3 minutes is 10.56%.

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