The length of time it takes to find a parking space at 9 A.M. follows a normal distribution with a mean of 5 minutes and a standard deviation of 2 minutes. Seventy percent of the time, it takes more than how many minutes to find a parking space? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

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Answer:

[tex]z=0.524<\frac{a-5}{2}[/tex]

And if we solve for a we got

[tex]a=5 +0.524*2=6.048 \approx 6.05 min[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Let X the random variable that represent the lenght time it takes to find a parking space at 9AM of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

[tex]X \sim N(5,2)[/tex]  

Where [tex]\mu=5[/tex] and [tex]\sigma=2[/tex]

For this part we want to find a value a, such that we satisfy this condition:

[tex]P(X>a)=0.3[/tex]   (a)

[tex]P(X<a)=0.7[/tex]   (b)

As we can see on the figure attached the z value that satisfy the condition with 0.7 of the area on the left and 0.3 of the area on the right it's z=0.524

If we use condition (b) from previous we have this:

[tex]P(X<a)=P(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma}<\frac{a-\mu}{\sigma})=0.7[/tex]  

[tex]P(z<\frac{a-\mu}{\sigma})=0.7[/tex]

But we know which value of z satisfy the previous equation so then we can do this:

[tex]z=0.524<\frac{a-5}{2}[/tex]

And if we solve for a we got

[tex]a=5 +0.524*2=6.048 \approx 6.05 min[/tex]

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