Sociology graduates, upon entering the workforce are normally
distributed and earn a mean salary of $30,000 with a standard
deviation of $4000.
- Jessica is an honors sociology student. Upon graduation, she
would like to take a job that starts at $40,000. What is the
probability that randomly chosen salary exceeds $40,000?
- Sam is not sure how much he will make upon graduation. He would
be happy if his salary was in the middle 60% of salaries. Find the
two salaries that are the cutoff values for the middle 60% of
salaries.