The monthly returns for a financial advisory service can be modeled by a Normal distribution with a mean of $123 and standard deviation of $75, per $10,000 invested. Find the following boundaries: (use 4 decimals for all answers) (a) the middle 80% of monthly returns: ______  and _______ (Enter the lower value first.)

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The monthly returns for a financial advisory service can be modeled by a Normal distribution with a mean of $123 and standard deviation of $75, per $10,000 invested. Find the following boundaries: (use 4 decimals for all answers)

(a) the middle 80% of monthly returns: ______  and _______ (Enter the lower value first.)

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Let x denotes the monthly returns which follows normal distribution with mean of $123 and standard deviation of $75.

Let x1 and x2 be the monthly return values.

The middle 80% of monthly returns is,

Px1<x<x2=0.80Px1-12375<x-μσ<x2-12375=0.80Px1-12375<z<x2-12375=0.80

Computation of critical value:

1-α=0.80α=0.20α2=0.101-α2=0.90

The critical value of z-distribution can be obtained using the excel formula “=NORM.S.INV(0.90)”. The critical value is 1.28155.

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