TABLE 6-2 John Has Two Jobs. for Daytime Work at a Jewelry

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TABLE 6-2
John has two jobs. For daytime work at a jewelry store he is paid $15,000 per month, plus a commission. His monthly commission is normally distributed with mean $10,000 and standard deviation $2,000. At night he works as a waiter, for which his monthly income is normally distributed with mean $1,000 and standard deviation $300. John's income levels from these two sources are independent of each other.
-Referring to Table 6-2, John's income as a waiter will be between what two values symmetrically distributed around the population mean 80% of the time?

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Definitions:

Factory System

A method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor, characteristic of the Industrial Revolution, which replaced the traditional artisan workshops.

Textiles

Materials that are woven or knitted, typically used for making clothes and other objects.

Ironworks

A place where iron is smelted, forged, or processed into finished products.

Cotton Gin

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, the machine that separated cotton seed from cotton fiber, speeding cotton processing and making profitable the cultivation of the more hardy, but difficult to clean, short-staple cotton; led directly to the dramatic nineteenth-century expansion of slavery in the South.