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on hold times for callers to a local cable television company are known to be normally...

on hold times for callers to a local cable television company are known to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.3 minutes.

Find the average caller on hold time if the company maintains that no more than 10% of callers have to wait more than 6 minutes

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