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The selling prices of all stocks listed on the CDNX stock exchange are known to be normally distributed with a mean of $20 and a standard deviation of $4. (a) What percentage of stocks have a selling price between $20 and $40? (b) If 167 of the stocks sell for $26 or higher, how many stocks sell on the CDNX exchange? (c) What is the minimum selling price of the most expensive 5% of stocks? (d) 2 out of every 3 stocks sells for higher than what price? (e) The prices of the middle 80% of stocks are between what two values?
a)
Which is
where
is standard normal distribution
Looking up tables we find
so that
and so
Probability is
b)
which comes out to be
So total number of stocks is
c)
happens for
is the required minimum selling price of most expensive 5%
stocks
d)
means
so that
so that 2 out of 3 stocks sell higher than 18.28
e)
Where
by symmetry
So
is what we want
So that
or in other words
which corresponds to
(after looking up standard normal table)
So that prices of middle 80% stocks fall between
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