The average starting salary for this year's graduates at a large university (LU) is $20,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. Furthermore, it is known that the starting salaries are normally distributed.a. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a starting salary of at least $30,400? b. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a salary of exactly $30,400? c. Individuals with starting salaries of less than $15600 receive a low income tax break. What percentage of the graduates will receive the tax break? d. If 189 of the recent graduates have salaries of at least $32240, how many students graduated this year from this university? Question 3 The College Board reported the following mean scores for the three parts of the SAT (The World Almanac, 2009):Critical reading 502Mathematics 515Writing 494Assume that the population standard deviation on each part of the test is 100.a) What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 502 on the Critical reading part of the test?b) What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 515 on the Mathematics part of the test? Compare this probability to the value computed in part (a).
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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The average starting salary for this year's graduates at a large university (LU) is $20,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. Furthermore, it is known that the starting salaries are normally distributed.
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a starting salary of at least $30,400?
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a salary of exactly $30,400?
c. Individuals with starting salaries of less than $15600 receive a low income tax break. What percentage of the graduates will receive the tax break?
d. If 189 of the recent graduates have salaries of at least $32240, how many students graduated this year from this university?
Question 3
The College Board reported the following mean scores for the three parts of the SAT (The World Almanac, 2009):
Critical reading 502
Mathematics 515
Writing 494
Assume that the population standard deviation on each part of the test is 100.
a) What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 502 on the Critical reading part of the test?
b) What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 515 on the Mathematics part of the test? Compare this probability to the value computed in part (a).
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Question 1 :
Average starting salary ( ) = $20,000
Std. deviation of starting salary ( ) = $8,000
Starting salary follows normal distribution
To find :
a ) Prob. that randomly selected graduate will have starting salary at least $30,400
b ) Prob. that randomly selected graduate will have starting salary exactly $30,400
c ) % of graduates receive the tax break for starting salary of less than $15600
d ) How many students graduated out of 189 having salaries of at least $32240
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