SOLUTION: At one retail store, the mean time for a person to complete an application for employment is 24.5 minutes with standard deviation 3.9 minutes. What is the probability a randomly

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Question 437409: At one retail store, the mean time for a person to complete an application for
employment is 24.5 minutes with standard deviation 3.9 minutes. What is the
probability a randomly selected applicant takes longer than 37 minutes to fill
out the application?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi

mean time for a person to complete an application for

employment is 24.5 minutes with standard deviation 3.9 minutes

Find P(x > 37min)



*Note: z+=+blue%28x+-+mu%29%2Fblue%28sigma%29

     z =  (37-24.5)/ 3.9 = 3.2051

  p(z >3.2051) = .0007