Question

A wildlife conservationist specializing in wolf conservation read an article from 2008 that claimed that the number of wolves born in a litter is normally distributed with a mean of 4.8 puppies and a standard deviation of 1.2 puppies. From the information above, what proportion of wolf litters will have more than 6 puppies? Round answer to 3 sigraficant digits. a b. A wildlife conservationist is concerned that the number of wolf pups per litter has decreased over the last decade. She gathers data from the 9 recent wolf litters and found that they had an average litter size of 4,1 puppies. What's the probability that 9 litters would have a mean litter size of 4.1 pups or less? Round answer to 3 significant digits.

Answer 1

Ans! have giren Mean (M) 4.8 standard dev (66% 1.2 a) Plea6]? Plaz 6-4.8 12 =) P/ 221] more b) 4.1-4.8 0.1887 ~ 0.159 (from 2 table] The proportion of wolf litters will have than puppies as 0.159. if m=q Placylla el, 2. 1.0/59 P/2c of 3 P126-7.25) a) 0.040 (from a table]. Prob. is 0.040 29 -- Platky.1