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Waiting times at a doctor office are normally distributed with a mean of 35 minutes, and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. What is the chance a patient would have to wait over 50 minutes?
Z = (score-mean)/SD

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability related to the Z score.

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