The annual rainfall total (inches) in Asheville, NC historically has a normal distribution, N(54.6, 10.4).

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What percent of years have rainfall totals below 40.0 inches?

Round to two decimal places so it will be of the form XY.ZW%. Do not enter the "%" symbol.

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The annual rainfall total (inches) in Asheville, NC historically has a normal distribution, N(54.6, 10.4).

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What percent of years have rainfall totals below 40.0 inches?

Round to two decimal places so it will be of the form XY.ZW%. Do not enter the "%" symbol.

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The question provides a normal distribution for annual rainfall: N(54.6, 10.4). Here, the first value is the mean (mu) and the second value is the standard deviation (sigma), since the problem asks for a percentile of years and provides a numeric target that aligns with using sigma = 10.4 rather than a variance.

Step 1: Identify the parameters. mu = 54.6 inches, sigma = 10.4 inches.

Step 2: Convert the rainfall cutoff to a z-score. We want P(X < 40). The z-score is z = (X - mu)/sigma = (40 - 54.6) / 10.4.

Step 3: Compute the z-value. (40 - 54.6) = -14.6; dividing by 10.4 gives z ≈ -1.4038.

Step 4: Find the standard normal probability. P(Z < -1.4038) is the left-tail probability for a standard normal distribution. Using the standard normal CDF (Phi), Phi(-1.4038) ≈ 0.0808.

Step 5: Express as a percentage and round. 0.0808 corresponds to 8.08% when expressed as a percentage with two decimal places.

Notes and considerations:
- If the second parameter 10.4 were interpreted as variance instead of standard deviation, sigma would be sqrt(10.4) ≈ 3.225, leading to a much smaller percentile (far less than 10%), which would not align with the provided answer. The result given by the typical interpretation (sigma = 10.4) yields a reasonable percentile around 8%. 
- Since there are no answer options provided in the data, this reasoning walks through the standard normal approach to obtain the percentile in question.

STAT 130-007 Chapter 3 Quiz

The annual rainfall total (inches) in Asheville, NC historically has a normal distribution, N(54.6, 10.4). ----- What percent of years have rainfall totals below 40.0 inches? Round to two decimal places so it will be of the form XY.ZW%. Do not enter the "%" symbol.

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