The average starting salary for this year's graduates at a large university (LU) is $20,000 with a
Question:
The average starting salary for this year's graduates at a large university (LU) is $20,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. Furthermore, it is known that the starting salaries are normally distributed.
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a starting salary of at least $34,400?
b. Individuals with starting salaries of less than $15,600 receive a low income tax break. What is the percentage of the graduates will receive the tax break?
c. What are the minimum and the maximum starting salaries of the middle 95% of the LU graduates?
d. If 189 of the recent graduates have salaries of at least $32,240, how any students graduated this year from this university?
Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration
ISBN: 978-1285737232
9th edition
Authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey L. Brudney, John Bohte