Suppose That the Waiting Time for a License Plate Renewal

question 2

Multiple Choice

Suppose that the waiting time for a license plate renewal at a local office of a state motor vehicle department has been found to be normally distributed with a mean of 30 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes. In an effort to provide better service to the public, the director of the local office is permitted to provide discounts to those individuals whose waiting time exceeds a predetermined time. The director decides that 15 percent of the customers should receive this discount. What number of minutes do they need to wait to receive the discount?

• A) 34.48
• B) 21.68
• C) 38.32
• D) 25.52

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A theoretical model describing the body's short-term and long-term reactions to stress, proposed by Hans Selye, comprising three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Hans Selye

A pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who is credited with founding the field of stress research, identifying the General Adaptation Syndrome.