Use the Following Information for the Question

question 31

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for the question. The average travel time to work for a person living and working in Kokomo, Indiana is 17 minutes. Suppose the standard deviation of travel time to work is 4.5 minutes and the distribution of travel time is approximately normally distributed.
-Suppose that the probability that a person between the ages of 19 and 24 buys at least one tabloid magazine per week is 0.115. If 500 randomly selected people between the ages of 19 and 24 were asked "Do you buy at least one tabloid magazine per week?", would you be surprised if 45 or more said yes to this question? Why?

• A)Cannot be determined with the given information.
• B)Yes, 45 would be an unusually large number of people given the known probability of 0.12.
• C)Yes, 45 would be an unusually small number of people given the known probability of 0.115.
• D)No, 45 is within the expected range of people.

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