From long experience, it is known that the time it takes to do an oil change and lubrication job on a vehicle has a normal distr
ibution with a mean of 17.8 minutes and a standard deviation of 5.2 minutes. An auto service shop will give a free lube and oil change service to any customer who must wait beyond the guaranteed time to complete the work. If the shop does not want to give more than 1% of its customers a free lube and oil change service, how long should the guarantee be? Round appropriately to the minute.
–5 × 0.75 × 20 could be rewritten (applying the associative property) as –5 × (0.75 × 20). I chose this configuration because 0.75 * 20 is 15. Next, evaluate -5(15). This is -75. This matches Answer D.