9. Tax Audits How does the IRS decide on the percentage of income tax returns to audit

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9. Tax Audits How does the IRS decide on the percentage of income tax returns to audit for each state? Suppose they do it by randomly selecting 50 values from a normal distribution with a mean equal to 1.55% and a standard deviation equal to .45%.

a. What is the probability that a particular state will have more than 2.5% of its income tax returns audited?

b. What is the probability that a state will have less than 1% of its income tax returns audited?

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Introduction To Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9780357114469

15th Edition

Authors: William Mendenhall Iii , Robert Beaver , Barbara Beaver

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