Use the Following Information for the Question

question 20

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.
-Which of these statements is asking for a measurement (i. e. is an inverse normal question) ?

• A)What percentage of people living and working in Kokomo have a travel time to work that is between thirteen and fifteen minutes?
• B)If 15% of people living and working in Kokomo have travel time to work that is below a certain number of minutes, how many minutes would that be?

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