I'm working on the following problem for my stats class:
- The measurement of atmospheric ozone concentration (in µg/m3) is modeled by a random variable X with distribution N (m, σ2) with σ2 = 3.1.
- Write the statistical model.
- In many applications, data are often modeled with the Normal distribution, while often the observed values are by definition positive (e.g. weight, size, speed, duration). Can you explain why?
- Some day, we make some measurements and we assume that this day the ozone concentration is 178µg/m3 (yet the experimenter doesn’t know this concentration otherwise he wouldn’t need measurements). (a) Compute the probability that a unique measurement is greater than 180? (b) What is the probability that the mean of three measurements is greater than 180 ? (c) How many measurements are necessary for the probability that the mean of these measurements is greater than 180 being less than 1%.
I've already done all exercises up to 4b, where Im stuck.
I did 4a by computing a Z score and doing 1 - P(X<180) = 12.71%
For 4b, how would you guys go about this? should I just do 12.71%^3?
EDIT: changed questions' numbers.