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Recently, the manager at Micron conducted a study of the time customers spent on hold waiting for a Micron representative to become available. The data showed that the distribution of time spent on hold is approximately normally distributed, with a mean of 18 minutes and a standard deviation of 4 minutes.

Question: The service manager wants to make sure that no one waits longer than 18 minutes. Determine the standard deviation that would be required to meet this goal?

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The solution determines the standard deviation that would be required so that no one waits for longer than 18 minutes waiting for a Micron representative to become available.

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A normal distribution is symmetrical around the mean. How spread out it is depends on the standard deviation (if the standard deviation is small, the distribution will be tall and skinny, and if ...

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