Full time PHD students receive an average of $12, 837 per year.

If the average salaries are nor

mally distributed with a standard deviation of $1500, find these probabilities. Round the final an
swers to four decimal places and intermediate z value calculations to two decimal places.
a. The students makes more than 15000
b. the student makes between 13000 and 14000

Find the z score,

When you find the z score, then find the probability either in a table
or using software.

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Question 78380: This is a statistics problem, Can someone help? I am so confused.

An instructor gives a 100 point exam in which the grades are normally distributed. The
mean is 60 and the standard deviation is 10. If there are 5% A's and 5% F's, 15% B's and
15% D's and 60% C, find the scores that divide the distribution into those categories

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The z-score below which 5% of the scores lie is -1.64485
The z-score above which 5% of the scores lie is +1.64485
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Convert these z-scores to raw scores as follows:
x-60=-1.64485*10
x=60-16.4485
x=43.55 (this is the grade score below which 5% of the grades lie)
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x-60=.64485*10
x=60+16.4485
x=76.4485 (this is the grade score above which 5% of the grades lie)
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Follow the same procedure for the other percentages.
Let me know if you have trouble with this.