SOLUTION: the ages of employees at a company is normally distributed with a mean of 43 years and a standard deviation of 5 years. what must be the maximum age of an employee if he/she is co

Question 866783: the ages of employees at a company is normally distributed with a mean of 43 years and a standard deviation of 5 years. what must be the maximum age of an employee if he/she is considered to be in the youngest 10% of employees?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



Hi

mean of 43 years and a standard deviation of 5 years

invNorm(.10) = -1.2816

-1.2816 = (X - 43)/5

5(-1.2816) + 43 = X = 36.592 , 37 max age 

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