5.27 A contractor has concluded from his experience that the cost of building a luxury home is...

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5.27 A contractor has concluded from his experience that the cost of building a luxury home is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of $500,000 and a standard deviation of $50,000.

a. What is the probability that the cost of building a home will be between $460,000 and $540,000?

b. The probability is 0.2 that the cost of building will be less than what amount?

c. Find the shortest range such that the probability is 0.95 that the cost of a luxury home will fall in this range.

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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780273767060

8th Global Edition

Authors: Paul Newbold, Mr William Carlson, Ms Betty Thorne

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