A company sells pumpkin seeds. They advertise that they will offer you 100 pounds of free topsoil if it takes their pumpkins more than a certain number of days to grow to maturity. They wish to only have to give away free topsoil AT MOST 2% of the time, and the number of days it takes their seeds to grow to maturity follows a normal distribution with a mean of 106 days and a standard deviation of 5 days. They wish to advertise a number in whole days. What number of days will they advertise? CARRY ALL DECIMALS IN YOUR WORK BUT REPORT YOUR FINAL ANSWER AS A WHOLE NUMBER WITH NO DECIMALS. HINT: You must round up to ensure that the company requirement that free topsoil is given away no more than 2% of the time is met.
A company sells pumpkin seeds. They advertise that they will offer you 100 pounds of free topsoil if it takes their pumpkins more than a certain number of days to grow to maturity. They wish to only have to give away free topsoil AT MOST 2% of the time, and the number of days it takes their seeds to grow to maturity follows a
a. The distribution of these sample means will retain a noticeable right skew.
b. The distribution of these sample means is left skewed.
c. The distribution of these sample means will appear noticeably approximately normal.
d. The mean of these 1000 sample means should be approximately equal to 0.756.
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