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Infer mean and standard deviation from two tail areas

Blue Neon Guppy masses at Green Park Tropical Fish Farm are normal with mean μ g and standard deviation σ g.5% exceed 85 g and 10% are below 25 g. Find μ and σ, then find the range symmetric about the mean containing 75% of the masses.

CJC · Lecture · Example 6

Sketch the known tail and standardise its cutoff.

Use the N(0,1) quantile to build an equation for the unknown parameters.

Keep full precision until interpreting the final result.

Read the worked solution