A Random Variable Is Normally Distributed with a Mean of 25

question 114

Multiple Choice

A random variable is normally distributed with a mean of 25 and a standard deviation of 5.If an observation is randomly selected from the distribution,what value will be exceeded 10% of the time?

• A)31.40
• B)28.60
• C)66.23
• D)14.56

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