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Given information

If the area to the right of  in a normal distribution is , what is the area to the left of ?

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The probability gives the likelihood of a specific event that it will occur.

The value of probability lies between  and  The probability of a random variable say  is usually denoted by .

Therefore, the probability of the random variable assuming any specified value is denoted by .

The probability of the random variable assuming less than or left of any specified value is , and the probability of the random variable assuming more than or right of any specified value is .

One can use the complementary law of probability to express the probability which is right of any specified value as:

 

In the problem it is given that,

 

Since the total area under the normal curve is

Therefore,

 

Hence, the area to the left of is:

 

 

 

 

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