According to a government study among adults in the 25- to 34-year age group, the mean amount spent per year on reading and entertainment is $1,999. Assume that the distribution of the amounts spent follows the normal distribution with a standard deviation of $574. (Round your z-score computation to 2 decimal places and final answers to 2 decimal places.) What percent of the adults spend more than $2,550 per year on reading and entertainment?

The probability is  

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

   Th The population mean

    The  standard deviation is  

    The  values considered is  

Given that the distribution of the amounts spent follows the normal distribution then the  percent of the adults spend more than $2,550 per year on reading and entertainment is mathematically represented as

Generally  

So

substituting values

From the normal distribution table the value of is  

Thus  

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )