CAIE S1 2016 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeFind standard deviation from probability

1 The height of maize plants in Mpapwa is normally distributed with mean 1.62 m and standard deviation \(\sigma \mathrm { m }\). The probability that a randomly chosen plant has a height greater than 1.8 m is 0.15 . Find the value of \(\sigma\).