The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. A researcher analyses the data from ESS survey and found that on an average weekday, Swedish spend 0.84 hours reading the newspapers with a standard deviation of 30.58 minutes. Assume that time spend reading newspapers is normally distributed.

Answer the following questions based on the above information:

(1 mark) What is the probability that a randomly selected Swedish spends less than 0.93 hours reading the newspapers on an average weekday? (4dp) Answer

(2 marks) What is the probability that a randomly selected Swedish spends more than 0.79 hours reading the newspapers on an average weekday? (4dp) Answer

(3 marks) What is the probability that a randomly selected Swedish spends between 0.93 and 0.79 hours reading the newspapers on an average weekday? (4dp) Answer

(2 marks) If the hours spent reading the newspapers for a Swedish was on the 30th percentile, how many hours would s/he spend on an average weekday reading the newspapers? (2dp) Answer in hours

(2 marks) In a sample of 36 Swedish, how many of them would be expected to spend more than 0.61 hours per day reading the newspapers on an average weekday? (2 dp) Answer