The Time for a Professor to Grade an Exam Is

question 51

Multiple Choice

The time for a professor to grade an exam is normally distributed with a mean of 16.3 minutes and a standard deviation of 4.2 minutes. The interval around the mean that contains 68% of the times needed to grade exams is------ .

• A)5.8, 26.8
• B)7.9, 24.7
• C)3.7, 28.9
• D)12.1, 20.5

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