At a Local Manufacturing Plant, Employees Must Complete New Machine

question 2

Multiple Choice

At a local manufacturing plant, employees must complete new machine set ups within 30 minutes. New machine set-up times can be described by a normal model with a mean
Of 22 minutes and a standard deviation of four minutes. What percent of new machine
Set ups take more than 30 minutes?

• A) 97.72%
• B) 47.72%
• C) 2.28%
• D) 52.28%
• E) none of the above

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