Homework Help: statistics

Posted by victor on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 7:23pm.

According to a bank, the time taken by its customers to use cash dispensing machines is normally distributed with a mean of 18 seconds and a standard deviation of 3 seconds.
I) What is the probability that a customer selected at random takes less than 13 seconds?
II) Find the proportion of customers that take :
a) Between 15 and 21 seconds to use the cash dispensers?
b) Between 12 and 24 seconds to use the cash dispensers?

statistics - PsyDAG, Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 12:18pm
Z = (score-mean)/SD

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportions related to the Z scores.

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