Jamie and Amy are married and both work for Coastal Company. Jamie works in a department for which the mean hourly rate is $18.80 and the standard deviation is $3.20. Amy works in a department where the mean rate is $17.50 with a standard deviation of $2.80. Relative to their departments, who is better paid if Jamie earns $19.75 and Amy earns $19.15? Assume that both departments’ pay scales are normally distributed.   Be sure to include both z scores to help support your answe

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Jamie and Amy are married and both work for Coastal Company. Jamie works in a department for which the mean hourly rate is $18.80 and the standard deviation is $3.20. Amy works in a department where the mean rate is $17.50 with a standard deviation of $2.80. Relative to their departments, who is better paid if Jamie earns $19.75 and Amy earns $19.15? Assume that both departments’ pay scales are normally distributed.

 

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