Fast Auto Service provides oil and lube service for cars. It is known that the m

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Fast Auto Service provides oil and lube service for cars. It is known that the mean time taken for oil and lube service at this garage is 15 minutes per car and the standard deviation is 2.4 minutes. The management wants to promote the business by guaranteeing a maximum waiting time for its customers. If a customer's car is not serviced within that peri d, the customer wil receive a 5 discount on the charges. The company wants to limit this discount to at most % of the customers what should the maximum guaranteed waiting time be? Assume that the times taken for oil and lube service for all cars have a normal distribution. Round your answer to the nearest minute. The maximum quaranteed waiting time should be approximately minutes. the absolute tolerance is +/-1

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the top 1% of service time = 99 percentile

99th percentile is given by:
0.99 = P(x < x0) = P( (x-u)/s < (x0 -u)/s)

from z table, we get (x0-u)/s = 2.3263
=> (x0 - 15)/2.4 = 2.3263
This gives x0 = 20.5832

approximately 21 minutes

99th percentile is given by:
0.99 = P(x < x0) = P( (x-u)/s < (x0 -u)/s)

from z table, we get (x0-u)/s = 2.3263
=> (x0 - 15)/2.4 = 2.3263
This gives x0 = 20.5832

approximately 21 minutes

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