Civil Engineering
GATE CE concept:standard-deviation PYQs
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Question 47
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The age (in years) of a population is normally distributed with a mean of 36 and standard deviation of 12. The height (in cm) of the same population is also normally distributed with a mean of 160 and standard deviation of 10.
If the probability of age greater than 50 years is equal to the probability of height greater than h, the value of h (in cm) is ______ (rounded off to two decimal places).
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Consider a discrete random variable
whose probabilities are given below. The standard deviation of the random variable is _____ (round off to one decimal place).
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