The dean of a business school claims that the average monthly income of his school's BS in Business Administration graduates 2 years after graduation is 24,700. If the dean's claim is correct, and if the distribution of monthly income has a standard deviation of 4,100. What is the probability that 50 randomly selected graduates have an average income greater than 22,800
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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The dean of a business school claims that the average monthly income of his school's BS in Business Administration graduates 2 years after graduation is 24,700. If the dean's claim is correct, and if the distribution of monthly income has a standard deviation of 4,100. What is the probability that 50 randomly selected graduates have an average income greater than 22,800.
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