At a local restaurant, the amount of time that customers have to wait for their food is normally distributed with a mean of 18 minutes and a standard deviation of 4 minutes. Using the empirical rule, determine the interval of minutes that the middle 99.7% of customers have to wait.

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Answer:

99.7% of customers have to wait between 8 minutes to 30 minutes for their food.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

Mean, μ = 18 minutes

Standard Deviation, σ = 4 minutes

We are given that the distribution of amount of time is a bell shaped distribution that is a normal distribution.

Empirical Formula:

  • Almost all the data lies within three standard deviation from the mean for a normally distributed data.
  • About 68% of data lies within one standard deviation from the mean.
  • About 95% of data lies within two standard deviations of the mean.
  • About 99.7% of data lies within three standard deviation of the mean.

Thus, 99.7% of the customers have to wait:

[tex]\mu -3\sigma = 18-3(4) = 6\\\mu +3\sigma = 18+3(4) = 30[/tex]

Thus, 99.7% of customers have to wait between 8 minutes to 30 minutes for their food.

In normally distribution of food ,  99.7 % of customers have to wait between 6 minute and 30 minutes.

Given that,  mean [tex]\mu[/tex] = 18 minute and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex] = 4

In normal distribution curve  99.7% of data lies within three standard deviation of the mean.

Since, normal distribution curve is symmetrical.

Now we have to calculate,

                [tex]\mu-3\sigma =18-3(4)=18-12=6\\\\\mu+3\sigma=18+3(4)=18+12=30[/tex]

Therefore, 99.7 % of customers have to wait between 6 minute and 30 minutes.

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