In Exercise 16, we saw the following situation: Harada Construction has just bid on a major commercial

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In Exercise 16, we saw the following situation: Harada Construction has just bid on a major commercial project. The bid was based on a normal distribution representing Harada’s estimates of possible costs for the project. The distribution is centered on $6.5 million and has a standard deviation of $1.1 million. According to Harada’s estimates:
a. There is a 60% chance that costs will be less than $_______ million.
b. There is a 1% chance that the cost will be greater than $____ million.
c. There is a 45% chance that costs will be between $6.5 million and $______ million. (Make $6.5 million the lower boundary for your interval.)
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Understanding Business Statistics

ISBN: 978-1118145258

1st edition

Authors: Stacey Jones, Tim Bergquist, Ned Freed

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