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7.3 Exercise 51

Avg difficulty 2.5


Use the following to answer the next two exercises:
The cost of unleaded gasoline in the Bay Area once followed an unknown distribution with a mean of $4.59 and a standard deviation of $0.10. Sixteen gas stations from the Bay Area are randomly chosen. We are interested in the average cost of gasoline for the 16 gas stations.

Salaries for managers in a restaurant chain are normally distributed with a mean of $44,000 and a standard deviation of $6,500. We randomly survey 10 managers from that district.

  1. Find the 90th percentile for an individual manager's salary.
  2. Find the 90th percentile for the average manager's salary.

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