Assume That It Takes a College Student an Average of 5

question 111

Multiple Choice

Assume that it takes a college student an average of 5 minutes to find a parking spot in the main parking lot. Assume also that this time is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 2 minutes. Find the probability that a randomly selected college student will take between 2 and 6 minutes to find a parking spot in the main parking lot.

• A) 0.1950
• B) 0.4772
• C) 0.4332
• D) 0.6247

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