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kellyjaisingh

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Suppose the monthly demand for automobile tires at a tire dealer is normally distributed with a mean of 250 tires and a standard deviation of 50 tires. How many tires must the store have in inventory at the beginning of each month in order to meet demand 95 percent of the time?

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In order to estimate the mean salary for a population of 500 employees, the president of a certain company selected at random a sample of 40 employees. What is the probability that the sample mean salary of the employees will be within 200 of the population mean salary?



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Answer to Question 1

332

Answer to Question 2

0.901



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