document.write( "Question 429444: Vail Resorts pays part-time seasonal employees at ski resorts on an hourly basis. At a certain mountain, the hourly rates have a normal distribution with a standard deviation of $4.00. If 30 percent of all part-time seasonal employees make more than $14.00 an hour, what is the average hourly pay rate at this mountain? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "hourly rates have a normal distribution with a standard deviation of $4.00
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document.write( "30 percent of all part-time seasonal employees make more than $14.00 an hour
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document.write( " P(all part-time seasonal employees make more than $14.00 an hour) = .30
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document.write( "then correspondingly  z = .5244
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document.write( " ($14 - μ)/$4 = .5244
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document.write( "  $14 - 4(.5244) = μ 
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document.write( "    $11.90 = μ    \n" );
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