Suppose that the distance of fly balls hit to the outfield (in baseball) is normally distributed...

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Suppose that the distance of fly balls hit to the outfield (inbaseball) is normally distributed with a mean of 255 feet and astandard deviation of 37 feet. Let X be the distance in feet for afly ball.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(___,__)

b. Find the probability that a randomly hit fly ball travels lessthan 278 feet.____ Round to 4 decimal places.

c. Find the 70th percentile for the distribution of distance of flyballs. Round to 2 decimal places. ___ feet

Fill in "___" please.

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a X follows normal DistributionIt is represented as Xmean SDXN22537bWe have to find probability that a randomly hit ball travelsless than 278 feetx for this    See Answer
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