Asked by alex
Average Household Income in Desertville
Your community has a total of approximately 100,000 households.
What percentage of households would be potential customers for The Shoe Hut?
What percentage of households would be potential customers for Star's Coffee and Teas?
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I don’t have the Desertville income breakdown or the businesses’ target-income cutoffs, so I can’t give exact percentages yet. I can, however, show how to get the percentages and give a quick worked example — then I can compute the real numbers if you paste the income distribution or tell me the target thresholds.
What I need from you (choose one):
- The income-bracket table for the 100,000 households (e.g., % or number in each bracket), or
- The mean and standard deviation of household income (and whether a normal approximation is acceptable), or
- The income threshold(s) that define a “potential customer” for each business (e.g., Shoe Hut = households with income ≥ $50k; Star’s = ≥ $35k).
How to compute (two common cases):
1) If you have counts or percentages by discrete income bracket:
- Add the counts (or % values) of all brackets that meet the business’s threshold.
- Example: total households = 100,000. If 30% earn ≥ $50k and 20% earn ≥ $100k (note: don’t double-count—use non-overlapping brackets), sum the relevant bracket percentages and divide by 100 to get the proportion.
- Percent = (households meeting threshold / 100,000) × 100.
2) If you only have mean and SD and assume a normal distribution:
- Compute z = (threshold − mean) / SD.
- Percent above threshold ≈ 1 − Φ(z) (Φ is the standard normal CDF).
- Multiply that proportion by 100 to get percent of households.
Worked example (hypothetical):
- Suppose income distribution by non-overlapping brackets:
- < $15k: 10%
- $15–30k: 15%
- $30–50k: 25%
- $50–100k: 30%
- > $100k: 20%
- If Shoe Hut’s target = households with income ≥ $50k → percent = 30% + 20% = 50% (50,000 households).
- If Star’s target = households with income ≥ $30k → percent = 25% + 30% + 20% = 75% (75,000 households).
If you paste Desertville’s income breakdown or tell me the thresholds for The Shoe Hut and Star’s Coffee and Teas, I’ll compute the exact percentages for you.
What I need from you (choose one):
- The income-bracket table for the 100,000 households (e.g., % or number in each bracket), or
- The mean and standard deviation of household income (and whether a normal approximation is acceptable), or
- The income threshold(s) that define a “potential customer” for each business (e.g., Shoe Hut = households with income ≥ $50k; Star’s = ≥ $35k).
How to compute (two common cases):
1) If you have counts or percentages by discrete income bracket:
- Add the counts (or % values) of all brackets that meet the business’s threshold.
- Example: total households = 100,000. If 30% earn ≥ $50k and 20% earn ≥ $100k (note: don’t double-count—use non-overlapping brackets), sum the relevant bracket percentages and divide by 100 to get the proportion.
- Percent = (households meeting threshold / 100,000) × 100.
2) If you only have mean and SD and assume a normal distribution:
- Compute z = (threshold − mean) / SD.
- Percent above threshold ≈ 1 − Φ(z) (Φ is the standard normal CDF).
- Multiply that proportion by 100 to get percent of households.
Worked example (hypothetical):
- Suppose income distribution by non-overlapping brackets:
- < $15k: 10%
- $15–30k: 15%
- $30–50k: 25%
- $50–100k: 30%
- > $100k: 20%
- If Shoe Hut’s target = households with income ≥ $50k → percent = 30% + 20% = 50% (50,000 households).
- If Star’s target = households with income ≥ $30k → percent = 25% + 30% + 20% = 75% (75,000 households).
If you paste Desertville’s income breakdown or tell me the thresholds for The Shoe Hut and Star’s Coffee and Teas, I’ll compute the exact percentages for you.
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