TABLE 6-1 The Manager of a Surveying Company Believes That the Average

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TABLE 6-1
The manager of a surveying company believes that the average number of phone surveys completed per hour by her employees has a normal distribution. She takes a sample of 15 days output from her employees and determines the average number of surveys per hour on these days. The ordered array for this data is: 10.0, 10.1, 10.3, 10.5, 10.7, 11.2, 11.4, 11.5, 11.7,
11.8, 11.8, 12.0, 12.2, 12.2, 12.5.
-Referring to Table 6-1, the ninth standard normal quantile is _____.

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