SOLUTION: A television station claims that the amount of advertising per hour of broadcast time has an average of 17 minutes and a standard deviation equal to 2.2 minutes. You watch the stat

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Question 1162261: A television station claims that the amount of advertising per hour of broadcast time has an average of 17 minutes and a standard deviation equal to 2.2 minutes. You watch the station for 1​ hour, at a randomly selected​ time, and carefully observe that the amount of advertising time is equal to 8 minutes. Calculate the​ z-score for this amount of advertising time
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z=(x-mean)/sd
=(8-17)/2.2
=-9/2.2
=-4.1