For a randomly chosen Monday, the probability there will be less than 340 column inches of classified advertisement is 0.8413.
The normal distribution, also known as the Gaussian distribution, is a symmetric probability distribution about the mean, indicating that data near the mean occur more frequently than data distant from the mean. The normal distribution will show as a bell curve on a graph.
The number of column inches of classified advertisements appearing on Mondays in a certain daily newspaper is normally distributed with a population mean of 320 and a population standard deviation of 20 inches.
[tex]P(X < 340) = P(z < \dfrac{(340-320)}{20})[/tex]
= P(z < 1)
= 0.8413
Hence, For a randomly chosen Monday, the probability there will be less than 340 column inches of classified advertisement is 0.8413.
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