In Melanie's Styling Salon, the Time to Complete a Simple

question 42

Multiple Choice

In Melanie's Styling Salon, the time to complete a simple haircut is normally distributed with a mean of 25 minutes and a standard deviation of 4 minutes. The slowest quartile of customers will require longer than how many minutes for a simple haircut?

• A)3(n + 1)/4 minutes
• B)26 minutes
• C)25.7 minutes
• D)27.7 minutes Using Excel =NORM.INV(.75,25,4) = 27.698, or Q₃ = 25 + 0.675(4) = 27.7 using AppendixC.

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