Cynthia is president of an international chemical distribution company, Cchem. Weekly gross sales for Cchem has a mean of $1 million and standard deviation of $0.2 million; the distribution of sales is highly right-skewed. One week’s sales are independent of the sales in any other week. Use this information to answer questions 5 to 6 below. What is the probability that sales for the week of October 5, 2009 will be more than $1.25 million? In order for Cynthia to receive a bonus, Cchem’s annual sales must exceed $53 million. What is the probability that Cynthia will receive a bonus
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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Cynthia is president of an international chemical distribution company, Cchem. Weekly gross sales for Cchem has a mean of $1 million and standard deviation of $0.2 million; the distribution of sales is highly right-skewed. One week’s sales are independent of the sales in any other week. Use this information to answer questions 5 to 6 below.
What is the probability that sales for the week of October 5, 2009 will be more than $1.25 million?
In order for Cynthia to receive a bonus, Cchem’s annual sales must exceed $53 million. What is the probability that Cynthia will receive a bonus for the fiscal year starting in 2010? Assume there are 52 weeks in a year.
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