E66. Where is the next gengition of male
professional basketball players coming from?
a.
The mean height of 18- to 24-year-old
males in the United States is approximately
normally distributed, with mean 70.1 in.
and standard deviation 2.7 in. Use this
information to approximate the percentage
of men in the United States between the
ages of 18 and 24 who are as tall as or taller
than each basketball player listed here.
Then, using the fact that there are about
13 million men between the ages of 18 and
24 in the United States, estimate how many
are as tall as or taller than each plaver.