The cash operating expenses of the regional phone companies during the first half of 1994 were distributed about a mean of $29.93 per access line per month, with a standard deviation of $2.65. company a's operating expenses were $27.00 per access line per month. assuming a normal distribution of operating expenses, estimate the percentage of regional phone companies whose operating expenses were closer to the mean than the operating expenses of company a were to the mean. (round your answer to two decimal places.)

The percentage of regional phone companies whose operating expenses were closer to the mean than the operating expenses of Company A were to the mean is 73%.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Company A's operating expenses were $27.00. This is $2.93 less than the regional mean.

The companies whose operating expenses are closer to the mean are the ones that have expenses $2.93 below or above the mean.

The fraction of companies that are closer to the mean is equal to the proability of having expenses between those two limits:

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