the average yearly utility costs on Middleton is $1722 with stdev of 146. assume that the utility costs follow a normal distribution.

1) What would the utility costs have to be so that only 7% of houses in Middleton have utility costs greater than this amount

1 answer

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 (.07) and its Z score. Insert Z score in equation above to find raw score.