MAT 144 Topic 3 Discussions GCU

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MAT 144 Topic 3 Discussions GCU

MAT 144 Topic 3 DQ 1

Choose one country that you might like to visit. Select a duration for your trip between two and six weeks, and then choose a number of participants between 5 and 10 people. Suppose one goal of your group is to speak to every adult citizen in the country. How many citizens must each missionary need to talk to per day, per hour, and per second to speak to every adult citizen in that country? Is that goal reasonable?

MAT 144 Topic 3 DQ 2

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the mean height of an American male is 69.3 inches and the mean height of an American female is 63.8 inches. The standard deviation for both genders is 2.7 inches.

• According to Chebyshev’s Theorem 75% of the data for your gender lies between what two heights?
• If height is assumed to be normal, what percentage of the data lies between those same two heights?

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