SOLUTION: A newspaper article reported that people spend a mean of 7 hours per day watching TV, with a standard deviation of 2.0 hours. A psychologist would like to conduct interviews with t
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Question 1150422: A newspaper article reported that people spend a mean of 7 hours per day watching TV, with a standard deviation of 2.0 hours. A psychologist would like to conduct interviews with the 5% of the population who spend the most time watching TV. She assumes that the daily time people spend watching TV is normally distributed. At least how many hours of daily TV watching are necessary for a person to be eligible for the interview? Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places. Round your answer to one decimal place. Answer by VFBundy(438) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Find the z-score where the area to the left of z is 0.9500. (This is the same z-score where the area to the right of z is 0.0500.) The z-score where this occurs is at 1.645. = 1.6450 = 1.6450
Cross-multiply:
x - 7 = 2(1.6450)
Simplify and solve for x:
x - 7 = 3.2900
x = 10.2900
A person must watch at least 10.3 hours of TV per day to be eligible for the interview.
