In 2015, the per capita consumption of bottled water in the United States was reported to be
Question:
In 2015, the per capita consumption of bottled water in the United States was reported to be 36.2 gallons.
Source: Data extracted from bottledwater.org/economics/bottled-water-market.
Assume that the per capita consumption of bottled water in the United States is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 36.2 gallons and a standard deviation of 10 gallons.
a. What is the probability that someone in the United States consumed more than 33 gallons of bottled water in 2015?
b. What is the probability that someone in the United States consumed between 10 and 20 gallons of bottled water in 2015?
c. What is the probability that someone in the United States consumed less than 10 gallons of bottled water in 2015?
d. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the United States consumed less than how many gallons of bottled water?
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Basic Business Statistics Concepts And Applications
ISBN: 9780134684840
14th Edition
Authors: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat, David F. Stephan