TABLE 6-2 John Has Two Jobs. for Daytime Work at a Jewelry

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TABLE 6-2
John has two jobs. For daytime work at a jewelry store he is paid $15,000 per month, plus a commission. His monthly commission is normally distributed with mean $10,000 and standard deviation $2,000. At night he works as a waiter, for which his monthly income is normally distributed with mean $1,000 and standard deviation $300. John's income levels from these two sources are independent of each other.
-Referring to Table 6-2, John's commission from the jewelry store will be between what two values symmetrically distributed around the population mean 90% of the time?

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