A hotel manager must distribute salary raises for next year.  She has decided that the mean raise is to be $2,000, the standard deviation of the raise is to be $400, and the distribution approximates normally.   the highest 10% of the employees (ranked by merit) will have a raise equal to or greater than $___________. b.  the 5% of the employees with the lowest merit rating will receive no more  than $__________ each.

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6.  A hotel manager must distribute salary raises for next year.  She has decided that the mean raise is to be $2,000, the standard deviation of the raise is to be $400, and the distribution approximates normally.

 

  1. the highest 10% of the employees (ranked by merit) will have a raise equal to or greater than $___________.

b.  the 5% of the employees with the lowest merit rating will receive no more  than $__________ each.

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