A Random Variable Is Normally Distributed with a Mean of 25

question 26

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, determine two values of which the smallest has 25% of the values below it and the largest has 25% of the values above it.

• A) 18.85 and 27.94
• B) 19.31 and 21.12
• C) 16.23 and 18.82
• D) 21.65 and 28.35

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