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dboyz
 
Reply Sun 21 Jul, 2013 07:58 pm
For each working day, a woman leaves home at 08 30 and drives to her office. Her times for travelling from home to office are normally distributed with mean 27 minutes and standard deviation 2.5 minutes. Calculate the number of working days, out of 200, that she would expect to arrive at the office after 09 00.
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Reply Sun 21 Jul, 2013 09:15 pm
@dboyz,
The mean is 27 and 9:00 is 30 minutes of driving, so if she is going to arrive at or after 9:00, that is 3 minutes past the mean. The standard deviation is 2.5, so 3 minutes is 1.2 standard deviations. Looking up +1.25 standard deviation in a normal table or using this normal function calculator, you get that 89.49% of the time she is earlier than 9:00 and 10.51% she is later. (You could just use the calculator straight without calculating the z score, but you probably need to understand the procedure.) Multiple 10.51% by 200 to get the answer.
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John Marsh
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 05:28 am
@dboyz,
"Solution: Given condition n²=(m+1)^3-m^3
n²=3m²+3m+1
and condition 2n+79=m²
let (2n+1)(2n-1)=4n²-1
=12m²+12m+3
3(2m+1)²
since (2n+1)&(2n-1) are odd and their difference is 2, the are relatively prime
We cannot have (2n-1)be three times a square, for then (2n+1) would be a square congruent to 2 modulo 3, which is impossible.

Thus (2n-1) is a square, say b². But (2n+79) is also a square, say a². Then (a+1)(a-1)=a²-b²=80. Since a+b and a-b have the same parity and their product is even, they are both even. To maximize n, it suffices to maximize 2b=(a+b)(a-b) and check that this yields an integral value for m. This occurs when a+b=40 and a-b=2 , that is, when a=21 and b=19. This yields n=181."
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