SOLUTION: Albert and Elsie operate a very large and very busy U-pick strawberry patch. The mean number of quarts picked per day by the customers is 2100, with a standard deviation of 250.

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Question 362594: Albert and Elsie operate a very large and very busy U-pick strawberry patch. The mean number of quarts picked per day by the customers is 2100, with a standard deviation of 250. The distribution is normal. What is the number of quarts that separates the slowest 3% of the days from the other 97% of the days?
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Albert and Elsie operate a very large and very busy U-pick strawberry patch. The mean number of quarts picked per day by the customers is 2100, with a standard deviation of 250. The distribution is normal. What is the number of quarts that separates the slowest 3% of the days from the other 97% of the days?
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The z-value with a 3% left tail is -1.8808
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Find x = zs+u
x = -1.8808*250+2100 = 1630 when rounded down to a whole number.
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Stan H.