Question

Beginning teachers' salaries are approximately bell-shaped with a mean of $51,740 with a standard deviation of $4,630. a) What percentage of beginning salaries will be between $37,850 and $65,630? b) 95% of the beginning salaries will be between what 2 values?

Answer 1

To find the percentage of beginning salaries between $37,850 and $65,630, we need to standardize these values first by subtracting the mean and then dividing by the standard deviation.